Agustín Espinosa

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Literature · Subcategory: Literary street map

Agustín Espinosa (Puerto de la Cruz, 1897-1939) was the leading figure in the island's modern literary movement, playing a key role as creator of modern prose in the Canaries during the 1920s and 1930s. The fruits of his stay in Lanzarote was the publication of his first book, Lancelot, 28º-7º (1929), and was where he started writing for La Gaceta Literaria. The description of the island that Agustín Espinosa relates in Lancelot, 28º-7º is a comprehensive vision of the geography of all the islands. In 1934 he published Crimen, considered the first ever Spanish surrealist novel, yet well away from automatic writing. 

«What I have tried to do, above all, is just that: create a poetic world; a conductive mythology. I attempt to create a whole new Lanzarote. A Lanzarote that I myself I have invented. Following the widest ranging tradition in universal literature.»

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