German List Arzubide (1898-1998) was a Mexican writer and poet whose work was framed within the stridentist current. In addition, he stood out for his rebellious personality and his revolutionary thinking. In his youth he joined the Constitutionalist Army of Venustiano Carranza.
List Arzubide's literary work was characterized by being spontaneous, expressive and creative, where he used a simple and precise language. Some of his most outstanding titles were: Esquina, estridentista poetry, The traveler in the vertex, It is the revolution Y Madero, the Mexico of 1910.
The work of the writer was recognized with some awards, among them the National Prize of Sciences and Arts. Germán List Arzubide collaborated in various print media in his country and held public office. Despite his talent, very little has been studied and written about his life and work.
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Germán List Arzubide was born on May 31, 1898 in the city of Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla. The data on his parents and relatives are scarce, although it is known that his training was carried out in the Normal School and in the old State College.
Literature and revolutionary ideals were part of List Arzubide from his youth. He was part of the Mexican Revolution and enlisted in the army corps of the military man Venustiano Carranza Garza. At the beginning of the 1920s, he was threatened by Álvaro Obregón's troops and had to flee.
His taste for literature emerged in 1921 when he participated in the creation of the publication Vincit. A year later he joined the Estridentismo along with young intellectuals of the stature of Arqueles Vela Salvatierra and Manuel Maples Arce.
List and Arce were in charge of drafting and exposing the second decree of the Estridentista movement in 1923. At that time he remained linked to the political events of Mexico and had time to publish Plebs Y Corner (1924).
The writer stood firm before his two passions: writing and the political and social cause. In 1926 he had the initiative to create the magazine Horizon in Xalapay, where he unveiled The stridentist movement Y Die the gachupines. It was a time when he was also in contact with the Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto Sandino.
Between 1927 and 1929 he published the works Emiliano Zapata, The traveler in the vertex Y Lenin, a technician of the social revolution. In the mid-thirties he joined the theatrical life with the creation of the Guiñol Theater and a year later he served as an official of the Treasury Department.
List Arzubide worked for more than a decade on the publication Weather, from 1941 to 1953. In 1957 he was part of the group of intellectuals that created the Mexican Academy of Education. In those years he published outstanding works such as Giuseppe Garibaldi. A hero between two worlds (1960) and The battle of May 5, 1862 (1962).
Although the literary quality of this Mexican writer has not been questioned, his writings went unnoticed for a long time and it was not until the 1990s that his work began to be recognized. He died on October 17, 1998 in Mexico City at the age of one hundred..
- Lenin Medal of the Soviet Union in 1960.
- National Prize for Cultural Journalism, 1983.
- Sandino Gold Medal in 1985, Nicaragua.
- Puebla Award, 1986.
- Rosete Aranda Award in 1994.
- National Prize of Sciences and Arts in Linguistics and Literature, 1997.
- Fine Arts Medal in 1997.
- Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (after death).
- Plebe, anarchist poetry (1925).
- Esquina, stridentist poetry (1925).
- Die the gachupines (1926).
- The stridentist movement (1926).
- Emiliano Zapata, exaltation (1927).
- The traveler at the vertex (1927).
- Lenin, a technician of the social revolution (1929).
- Irreligious education practice (1933).
- Troka, the mighty (1939).
- It's the revolution (1955).
- Giuseppe Garibaldi. Hero of two worlds (1960).
- The battle of May 5, 1862 (1962).
- Ramón López Velarde and the Mexican Revolution (1963).
- Madero, the Mexico of 1910 (1973).
- Stridentist poems (1986).
- Rainbow of Mexican tales (1991).
- Guignol Theater, complete comedies (1997).
"Your goodbyes
only rule
in the eclipse of the panoramas
we will sink into the banks
from perspective
and no one
will browse tomorrow
our name,
is on the road
our only destiny
and behind it drowns in violence
the loose itinerary
of love,
the counterfeit city
by the dawn of his handkerchief
spilled into the mechanical night
tunnel
I unfolded the diary of my indifference
and I read the catastrophe
of his name ".
"A Wagner Speech
It is under the baton of the
STOP-AND-FORWARD
The street has come all after us
and that smile flew from my hands.
The sun has stripped you.
Science is perfumed with bad intentions
and apart from fashion
the traffic has been mused.
… Heaven is sold out on the latest albums
the shop windows speak of free love
his name is a postcard lightning bolt.
If I weren't sad ...
Sold and sung for 5 cents
Villa was invented
those who hated the gringo.
They have stolen the eyes that I wore on my vest
Do you know where the mail goes? ".
"Cities that inaugurate my step
while her eyes
they hijack the landscape ...
the telegraph wires
the night is creeping ...
The balcony
of your goodbye
delivered whole in a conversion
in the corners
unpublished girls
they have turned on the voltaics
and the landscape put in the electrics
is saying the delayed names.
A waltz in exile
patched up of college grades
Y
arms folded
the hotel
sealed with the cry of all countries
and a poor old time.
This city is mine
and tomorrow
I'll throw it in handfuls
to the iron road ".
“… While the engines snort their
impatience
spiders weave
his fabrics with threads of music
to catch the electric butterfly ... ".
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