Mercedes Pinto Armas de la Rosa and Clos (1883-1976) was a Spanish writer, playwright, journalist, and speaker. From an early age she gained recognition due to the publication of her poems, and later for her feminist thoughts and political actions..
Pinto's work was characterized by social concerns and concerns that he had with respect to women. His ideas were expressed with force and maximum expressiveness from all the literary genres that he developed. The poet always sought sincerity and leave an indelible mark.
The personal experiences of the author were a source of inspiration to write many of her works. Written as He, and the conference Divorce as a hygienic measure, caused a stir in a society that lived on appearances and moral and religious facades.
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Mercedes was born on October 12, 1883 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, into a family of intellectuals. His parents were the writer Francisco Pinto de la Rosa and Ana María Armas Clos. His talent, along with the influence of his parents, had a lot to do with his success..
The fact that Mercedes Pinto was born into a cultured and educated family, allowed her maximum intellectual development. From a very young age she began to write verses, and at the age of fourteen she was already known in her hometown as the "Canarian poet", due to her lyrical qualities..
Mercedes married for the first time in 1909, when she was twenty-six years old, to Juan de Foronda y Cubillas, a navy captain. The couple had three children: Juan Francisco (who died as a teenager), Ana María and María de las Mercedes.
Married life presented some inconveniences due to the husband's health problems. Foronda suffered from mental disorders that forced Pinto to hospitalize him, later she left with her children to live in the Spanish capital, and the couple disintegrated.
The life of the writer in Madrid connected her with the greatest intellectuals of the time; he met José Ortega y Gasset, Miguel de Unamuno and Carmen de Burgos. It was also in the twenties that she met who would be her second husband, Rubén Rojo.
In those years he began to work in prestigious print media such as Graphic Press Y The action. In 1921 he finalized the publication of his first collection of poems, Brisas del Teide. In addition, the Canarian poet began her conference season at the International Women's League.
On November 25, 1923, Mercedes Pinto gave a lecture at the Central University of Madrid. The conference was titled Divorce as a hygienic measure, this caused great displeasure to the government. After the attacks, the poet made the decision to go to Uruguay with her family.
Pinto's life in exile meant growth at the literary level, social and political activities. In Latin American countries, she consolidated her fight for the rights of women and the less favored, and also worked to achieve a new educational system.
Mercedes Pinto's political activity consisted of important positions in the Uruguayan government. He also had the initiative to found the House of the Student, the Canarian Association of Montevideo and the magazine Canarian life, and some time later he created a theater company.
Mercedes lived for a time in Chile, there she met Pablo Neruda, who was amazed by his unique personality. In 1934 his novel came out Her, the following year he traveled to Cuba, where he lived for eight years. There she acted as a defender of the Spanish Republic and in favor of the Jews fleeing the Nazis.
In 1943, when her husband Rubén Rojo died, she permanently resided in Mexico. In Aztec land, she encouraged her children to continue their careers as actors, while she sometimes traveled to Spain. He died, due to old age, on October 21, 1976 in Mexico, at the age of 93..
Mercedes Pinto's literary style was characterized by being forceful and frontal. Always with a precise and direct language, in such a way that readers and their different audiences could understand it, in addition, his works expressed their most personal feelings due to their experiences.
The author's writing was full of energy and strength. Its main goal was to offer useful and beneficial content that will multiply. Sincerity, creativity and realism were constant in his works, in addition his vitality, rebellion and modernism were reflected in his literary activity.
- Brisas del Teide (1921).
- Songs of many ports (1940).
- Higher than the eagle (1968).
It was Pinto's first collection of poems, the verses were conceived between 1921 and 1924. The poems in this work were a reflection of the author's personal circumstances, in many of them she felt bitterness and anguish; but also the happiness of his years in Tenerife.
"Take this book to the closing of your sonorous name,
strange and presumptuous as the finishing touch
to hold the mantle of an oriental tycoon.
Of that name of music and a thousand times dear
that resounds incessantly like a ringing in my ear,
awakening my soul from a lethal morass ".
- He (1926).
- Her (1934).
- Little Juan's great soul (1950).
This novel by Mercedes Pinto was conceived within autobiographical nuances. The author narrated the story of a woman subjected to the violent attitudes of a psychologically ill husband, who against all opinion decided to get away and win her freedom.
“It had been a few days since he and I had spoken to each other. An unimportant setback caused one of his outbursts of rage, and later his resentment and my fears sealed our lips..
In this situation, we were better off: quiet and sullen, the silence wove hallucinatory shadows around us, but the shrillness had no place in the house, which was frayed by the parenthesis of restlessness ... ".
- Be quiet (1929).
- Any man (1930).
- A woman, Ana Rosa (1932).
- The excitement of Montevideo (1949).
- The Corpse Collector (1966).
- Days of old color (1967).
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