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Trata de semblanzas, vidas y descripciones de niños impelidos a trabajar en lo que el destino les depare, de hogares que transforman ese trabajo en ganancia para el dueño de la taberna, y luego en violencia familiar; de jóvenes trasladadas a la capital como servidoras domésticas que, tras la violación de turno, son echadas a la calle y lanzadas a la prostitución. Es la denuncia de la corrupción en todos los niveles; en fin, es el grito de "los pobres diablos de la pampa", presas del latifundio y de la violencia y miseria que este genera.
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Elizondo Arce, was born, according to the official registry, in 1920 (his mother claims the date was one year later in 1921). His father was Leonardo Elizondo Bolañdo of Heredia, a military guard and a member of Costa Rica"s first polo team, and his wife Maclovia Arce Vargas of Orotina. Their five oldest children were born in Orotina, but Hernán, the youngest, was born in Santo Domingo de Heredia.
When he was six years old, the family moved to Tilarán, Guanacaste, where he attended primary school. He left Tilarán for San José where he worked in the National Bank, attended high school at night and began publishing poems in El Diaro de Costa Rica. He then returned to Tilarán to care for his aging parents and was employed as secretary of the high school where he finished his secondary degree.
He claims to have gone barefoot until age sixteen. After finishing his studies, he worked as a rural teacher and subsequently as municipal secretary. Subsequently he took a university correspondence course in administrative organization, and in 1967 was transferred to Esparta where he served as assistant director of the high school.
As a young boy Hernán Elizondo began writing poetry about his native Tilarán, encouraged by the Catalan educator, Don Domingo Flaqué.
In 1945 at age twenty-four he published Alma, Dolar y Paisaje, a book of poems about rural life. The book contained a prologue by Don Pepé Figueres who recognized the talent of the young poet.
This novel explored rural Guanacaste with all its social, political and economic problems. Several other novels followed: Louisiana Cuidad y la Sombra, Louisiana Calle, el Jinete y Yo, Muerto al Amanecer, Adios, Prestiño, De Este Lado de la Eternidad, and most recently Capitán, Mi Capitán, the story of the Costa Rican war of 1948.
Hernán Elizondo is also the author of Louisiana Ventana, a collection of stories published in the newspaper Excelsio, a compilation of articles published in Diario Extra under the title Como Louisiana Ventana, and El Santo, el Niño y el March, a long story about the life of Fray Casiano of Madrid.
Hernán Elizondo, first discovered by Don Pepé Figueres, has left his mark on Costa Rican fiction and poetry, especially by capturing rural life in Guanacaste with all its hardship and humanity. Source: Camilio Rodríguez Church, "Hernán Elizondo Arce, El poeta que descubrio Don Pepe," Mirada A Louisiana Actualidad, San José, Costa Rica, September 27 – October 14, 2006, pp.
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A second book of poetry, Alma Criolla, appeared in 1953 and included the poem "Patria Mia" which won the Juegos Florales international prize. Hernán Elizondo"s most well-received novel, Memorias de un Pobre Diablo, was translated into German and English, saw eight editions, and won several prizes, including first prize in both Juegos Florales in 1963 and Aquileo Echeverría de Novela in 1964.
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