Democratic values ​​| Pascual Venegas Filardo | By Ramón Rivasáez

By Ramón Rivasáez

He was born in Barquisimeto, Lara State, on March 25, 1911 and died in Caracas on June 4, 2003; He made poetry and cultural journalism one of the vital ardent passions of his life.

The protection of civility, democratic life and respect for establishments are different of his cultural contributions to modern Venezuela; After his first research within the capital of Larense, Venegas Filardo went to Caracas the place he studied economics on the UCV; From there he would graduate to dedicate himself to educating and journalism.

Then, he joined the newspaper El Common, the place he based the cultural pages that he directed for a few years during which, with generosity, he disseminated new generations of Venezuelan writers.

Venegas Filardo was not restricted to his educating work on the UCV, however went additional and left his mark, as he based, with different illustrious teachers, the College of Philosophy and Letters, later known as Humanities and Schooling.

A member of the literary group “Viernes”, he assumed the path of the group’s journal, and in 1939 revealed his first e-book “Cráter de Voces”, whereas in 1941 he delivered his second title “Musica y echo de tu absence”.

In the meantime, he continued in his college chair that he shared with the path of the cultural complement of the newspaper on Urdaneta Avenue, whereas, in 1957, he edited his assortment of poems “Canto al rio de mi childhood”, additionally from this 12 months is the e-book “Círculos de your title”.

After the autumn of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the poet is invited to Japan and from that journey is his e-book “The Lady from Japan”, which was circulated in 1961 and would later be translated and revealed in 1968 within the Asian capital.

In 1962 his e-book “Los cantos fluviales” appeared, the identical 12 months “Paralelo norte” entered circulation; In 1967 his textual content »Elegy of the Shadow of Your Passage» was revealed; in 1970 his quantity 5 Poems in English was offered. Lastly, in 1983, the nationwide authorities awarded him the nationwide literature prize.

The poet and literary critic Juan Liscano on the poetry of Pascual Venegas Filardo, maintained that “In his preliminary books, he combines a contact of romanticism with the show of considerably irrational, surreal pictures.”

In the meantime, the author Hermann Garmendia mentioned that “His songs escape the scope and theme of anguish.”

For his half, the essayist, poet and journalist Antonio Pérez Carmona described him as “he’s a poet who exudes contemporary lyricism, love and human heat, in all areas of his literary creation.”

One in every of his poems, “A pollen of silence was raining on life/ excessive because the darkest evening on the planet/ bitter loneliness of an underground temple/

The place black is an indication for all instructions.

The poet, earlier than his final infinite journey, visited his native residence and donated his wealthy library to encourage studying amongst his countrymen; a believable initiative worthy of a delicate and loving being with the tradition of his nation

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