BIOGRAPHY OF PEDRO SALINAS
The November 27, 1891 born in Madrid the English writer Pedro Salinas Serrano, who was in literary history as the author of important essays and poems.
From 1914 to 1917, this young man who studied law, philosophy and literature, and devoted himself to the university, he attended the Sorbonne, where he received his doctorate in literature and came to value the work of Marcel Proust. At that time, be married to Margarita Salinas Bonmatí Botella, the daughter of an industrialist with distilleries in Algiers.
Day after day, the writer was surprised at his beloved (Leonor) with a letter expressing his love and that was that, years later, her daughter Soledad collected all those messages and released through "Love letters to Margarita."
After teaching at the University of Seville, in Cambridge and in Murcia, Salinas beginning in 1926 to teach at the University of Madrid, an institution where he also founded the magazine "Literary Index."
time later, would serve as a researcher at the Center for Historical Studies (which would be responsible for the area of \u200b\u200bModern Literature), professor at the Central School of Languages \u200b\u200band secretary general of the International Summer University of Santander. During the course of this last post, the writer is surprised by the English Civil War and that is why they decided to settle in the United States and continue teaching at the universities of Wellesley College and Johns Hopkins. At that time, moreover, Salinas taught at the University of Puerto Rico.
The death of the creator of "Fable and sign", "Reason for Love," "The voice you due", "miscalculation," "The referred", "Vespers of joy", "Head of Medusa "and" The source of the Archangel, "among other works, was in Boston on December 4, 1951.
