Pedro Geoffroy Rivas
Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (16 September 1908 - 10 November 1979) was an anthropologist, poet, and linguist. His poetic work marked a landmark in Salvadoran poetic development. A rebellious, individualistic poet, Rivas incorporated in his poetry the freedom to express himself openly without fear of ordinariness or anthropocentric turns.
Pedro Geoffroy Rivas
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- Name
- Pedro Geoffroy Rivas
- Born
- 16 September 1908
- Birthplace
- San Salvador, El Salvador
- Died
- 10 November 1979
- Education
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Nationality
- El Salvador
- Occupation
- anthropologist · linguist · poet · historian · university teacher · writer
- Fields
- anthropology · Spanish poetry · linguistics · history
- Languages
- Spanish
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Biography
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Rivas and Oswaldo Escobar Velado are known as the founders of the modern protest poetry of El Salvador. Rivas was a member of Mexican Communist Party and Salvadoran Communist Party in the 1930s. His work influenced Pablo Neruda.
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• Name — Pedro Geoffroy Rivas • Born — 16 September 1908 • Birthplace — San Salvador, El Salvador • Died — 10 November 1979 • Place of death — San Salvador, El Salvador • Education — National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Pedro Geoffroy Rivas lived from 16 September 1908 to 10 November 1979 and was a writer. The birth of Pedro Geoffroy Rivas is recorded on 16 September 1908 in Santa Ana (Salvador), and the death on 10 November 1979 in San Salvador (Salvador).
Education
Education
Rivas studied Anthropology Mexico at the University of New Mexico and obtained his master's degree from the university.
Poetry
Poetry
• Canciones en el viento (1933) • Rumbo (1935) • Para cantar mañana (1935) • Solo Amor (1963) • Yulcuicat (1965) • Cuadernos del Exilio • Los nietos del jaguar (1977) • Vida, pasión y muerte del antihombre (1978)
Anthropology and Linguistics
Anthropology and Linguistics
• Toponimia náhuat de Cuscatlán (1961, corregida y aumentada 1973) • El español que hablamos en El Salvador (1969 y 1975) • El nawat de Cuscatlán - Apuntes para una gramática Tentativa (1969) • Mi Alberto Masferrer (1953) • La lengua salvadoreña (1978)
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Santa Ana.
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- 1.Ricardo Bogrand: Señas de identidad: tres poetas y una ciudad
- 2.Rafael Lara Martínez: Pedro Geoffroy Rivas, p. 1
- 3.La Prensa Gráfica: Lanzan antología de Geoffroy
- 4.Rafael Lara Martínez: Pedro Geoffroy Rivas p. 2
- 5.Patria peregrina
- 6.Rafael Lara Martínez: Pedro Geoffroy Rivas, la poetización de la ciencia, p. 237 y siguientes
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