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Madrid: Land of Welcome (Show Miguel Hernández)

Comparison of the Gran Vía 30's and current ( obtained 2.bp.blogspot.com)

Madrid of the 30's was the center not only political but cultural in Spain, especially in the literary aspect. The capital had become a cosmopolitan city, a symbol of modernity to which he aspired, and its main mirror was the construction of the Great Way, which had been rising since 1910 and conceived as an avenue to Broadway style, with cinemas, theaters, shops, offices, bars and cafes .

Carrión Building 1933, where now stands the famous neon sign of Schweppes (obtained from www.viejo-madrid.es)

In the cultural environment of the Madrid highlighted some key points: from antiquity the University had been a center of culture and republicanism, the Fine Arts focused artistic innovations, literary gatherings also coffee and magazines agglutinated news from this area.

View of the Gran Via and the Edificio Telefonica, 1929 (obtained from estb.msn.com)

But especially significant was the Student Residence linked to the institution Free of Education, which studied major intellectual figures such as when they met Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel. There were held gatherings, concerts, plays ... with distinguished guests such as Ortega y Gasset and Juan Ramón Jiménez and members of the generation of 27 Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillén, Gerardo Diego ...

FG Lorca (center) and fellow at the Residencia de Estudiantes (obtained from www.juntadeandalucia.es)

Madrid during this period was the place where you could meet established authors, participate in literary circles of the first order, getting contacts for publishing and become known in the world of literature, in one word: success

Café Gijón (Recoletos, 21), still survive in Madrid cafe classics where intellectuals gathered (obtained from minibar.files.wordpress.com)

With that goal Miguel Hernández traveled to Madrid in late 1931, but their stay will be difficult to not get a job, from hardship and also fails in the goal of establishing cultural encounters in the capital, so disappointed to return in mid-1932 Orihuela.

Miguel Hernandez in Orihuela native (obtained from 4.bp.blogspot.com)

However

will try again with his second and final trip to Madrid in 1934, having already published in Murcia and receiving additional support. This time come in contact with the literary environment of the moment, by Alberti, Lorca, Zambrano ... but with whom he establishes a closer relationship will be with Vicente Aleixandre, and especially with Pablo Neruda shared their political and social ideas.

Tribute to Vicente Aleixandre for "Destruction or Love" 1934: Miguel Hernández (far left standing), sitting next to Pedro Salinas, Pablo Neruda (standing second from right) sitting Jose Bergamin and Vicente Aleixandre (first and third from right) and soil Gerardo Diego. Image obtained from www.miguelhernandezvirtual.com

Thanks to their contacts, get a job in the work about bullfighting bulls of J.M ª Cossio and finally get published in Madrid in various literary magazines such as Cruz y Raya led by Jose Bergamin (arising from the Lion coffee gathering) and also collaborates with his friend Pablo Neruda in his magazine Green Horse for poetry.

Magazines in publishing and collaboration Miguel Hernández, along with Pablo Neruda and Jose Bergamin (Obtained from 1.bp.blogspot.com)

Finally, thanks to the publication of his first book The ray that does not stop in 1936 reached recognition he craved, in the interest of Ortega in the prestigious Revista de Occidente and Juan Ramón Jiménez in his criticism of the newspaper El Sol .