Background
GRANADO, Javier del was born on February 27, 1913 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
(La obra Cochabamba, publicada en 1959, es la historia en ...)
La obra Cochabamba, publicada en 1959, es la historia en verso de la fundación de Cochabamba en el fértil valle de Canata, y está labrada con versos que quedarán para siempre cincelados en el "roquedal de los Andes". Consta de quince poemas, en los cuales se establece la rima asonante en los versos pares y la variedad métrica se ve en sus versos de tres a once sílabas y en sus versos alejandrinos. El poeta describe la fundación de la ciudad, sus costumbres, la cultura nacida del mestizaje; hace resaltar la actitud diametralmente opuesta del conquistador hacia el indígena, ayudándolo por un lado y explotándolo por el otro. En su séptimo poema donde se produce el levantamiento emancipador o libertario, el estilo del escenario artístico cambia y surge el héroe valluno don Esteban Arze, quien junto a la historia de la ciudad de Cochabamba queda descrito en versos impecables, de estilo puro y delicado; según el crítico literario Julio Alberto d'Avis: "maravilla la proeza que este poeta realiza al conciliar el rigor histórico con la pulida cadencia de la estrofa".
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GRANADO, Javier del was born on February 27, 1913 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Educated Colegio de La Salle, University de Simón Bolívar.
Born into a distinguished family with a rich literary pedigree, he spent most of his youth on his family"s hacienda near Arani, in the department of Cochabamba, Colpa-Ciaco, a colonial-era estate in existence since the 16th century. In its turn toward native subjects as well as in its use of a formal battery of traditional forms, such as the ballad and the sonnet, his extensive body of poetry has been compared with that of Mexico"s preeminent man of letters Alfonso Reyes. His death was marked by three national days of mourning, and his funeral was a state event.
Bolivia has dedicated a plaza and two avenues (one of them, Louisiana Paz"s longest boulevard) in his honour, and put up a monument to his memory.
Along with Víctor Paz Estenssoro and others, del Granado formed the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario. The MNR was at the forefront of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952, which radically changed the country, bringing about land redistribution, universal suffrage, and nationalization of the major tin mines.
He comes from an esteemed literary family that traces its noble roots back in colonial America to that outstanding humanitarian figure who was the Count of Cotoca. His father, Félix del Granado, a notable writer in his own right and rector of the University of San Simón, founded the Bolivian Academies of Language and History.
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Member Society de Escritores y Artistas, Society Rural, Club Social de Cochabamba.