Vicente Huidobro

Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them. Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago where he was expelled for using a ring, which he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the University of Chile and published Ecos del alma (Soul's Echoes) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal Musa Joven (Young Muse), where part of his later book, Canciones en la noche (Songs in the Night) appeared, as well as his first calligram, "Triángulo armónico" ("Harmonic Triangle"). In 1913, along with Carlos Díaz Loyola, he edited the three issues of the...

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Toma George Maiorescu

Surname: MAIORESCU Given Names: TOMA GEORGE Date of Birth: December 8, 1928 Married on: July 15, 1955 Number of Children: 1, Daughter - Daniela Wanda Education: Graduate, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy University of Bucharest, Graduate, Literaturni Institut, Moscow, Doctor in Humane Letters, Doctor Honoris Causa. Career to Date: 1954-1971 Editor "Contemporanul" Magazine; 1971-1982 Deputy Editor-in-Chief "Romania Pitoreasca" Magazine; 1990-Present Director of "ECO" Magazine, "Ecosophia", President of the Romanian Ecological Movement; President of The European Foundation for Ecological Education and Culture. Memberships: Active member of the "New York Academy of Sciences"; Member of the "Academie Internationale du Tourisme" (Monaco); Honor member of the Academy of Ecology (Romania). Publications: PROSE: A Trip Through Time, 1956; The Place where Cosmonauts Return, 1962; Barefoot Gods, 1966; A Dialogue with the Century, Volume I 1967, Volume II 1972; 0,17 Operation,1972; Wandering...

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Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (n. 5 ianuarie 1932) in Alessandria, Piemont) este un scriitor, semiotician și filosof italian. Studii universitare la Torino, luîndu-și licența în estetică. Din 1971 este profesor de semiotică la Universitatea din Bologna. A predat la cele mai faimoase universități din lume, fiind Doctor Honoris Causa a peste 50 dintre ele. Conduce revista VS. Quaderni di studi semiotici. In anii '60 a fost unul dintre reprezentanții de frunte ai avangardei culturale italiene, numărîndu-se printre fondatorii revistelor Marcatre și Quindici. Din 1959 este consilier editorial al celebrei edituri Bompiani. A primit nenumărate premii și distincții culturale, inclusiv Legiunea de Onoare (1993). Autor de romane, eseuri, tratate academice și cărți pentru copii. Profesor de semiotică la câteva dintre cele mai celebre universități europene și americane, Umberto Eco a abordat din această perspectivă aspecte cruciale ale culturii zilelor noastre. Prin opera sa științifică, Eco este socotit unul...

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Umberto Eco

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