Equinox A Revelation

The name of Revelation not only be related to a specific time in the literature Zulia, but should be seen also as an expression of a very intense moment in Venezuelan letters. So intense that the national literature was never the same, especially in the wonderful world of poetry. The decade of the 50 are crucial for what would later be woven into the art of words. A decade closely related to the true sense of the surreal art and its meaning libertarian. A significance value failed drive or members of Friday, but if they exploit the young poets who will speak in the mid-twentieth century. Poets brave taking as a starting point their experiences abroad, particularly in Santiago de Chile where they will contact with a universe of images that, together with their previous readings of the surreal and futuristic European forge a symbolic bridge to other worlds trapped within themselves. Contact with Mandrake founded in 1939, the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Rosamel del Valle, Pablo de Vicente Huidobro Rokha and Citizen Oblivion, will enable the country surrealism between the force and consciousness definitely needed to open floodgates of national poetic modernity.

These young people are Adriano González León, Juan Sánchez Peláez, Salvador Garmendia and Hesnor Rivera. They tried to form a group in Caracas literary whose name would Equinox. Adriano González León and Hesnor Rivera sat down to define a manifesto which points to break into Venezuela. However, it ran very lucky. Several reasons drove these young men take different paths. Rivera again Hesnor Maracaibo and in 1955 founded Revelation. There is a significant fact that hurries definitely the foundation of the group. The poet Silvia invite you to give a recital at the home of a privileged family in town. People were interested in knowing the poems had been published in Hesnor Santiago de Chile. The reading of these poems in sensitivity caused prejudiced horror of the audience and the horror shocked the young poet, who decides to flee to the ends of the night where the bar was located Redskin. Revelation starts there. On the other hand, a couple of months later, the group founded in Caracas "Sardi?, There are the other members of the failed Equinox. Had already published two books, two collections of poems that are, without doubt, the true birth of Surrealism Venezuela, these poems are "Elena and the elements? (1951), Sánchez Peláez and "Fiat Lux and other poems? (1954) by José Lira Sosa.

Hesnor Rivera and poets of Revelation understood the word, the vital center of poetry, was (and is) an instrument of and for freedom. Absolute freedom. Understand how they could rescue the words in the world of dreams, rescue to defeat death. That dream world is none other than that we have repressed in us to please, to accommodate falsely in a society no less false, a privileged society that are divided into different control institutions like church and state, mainly. A Peláez books and Lira Sanchez Sosa, joins "Paradise of the Damned? Villegas Regulus, the only poet who published a book of Revelation in the creative heyday. Unfortunately, the poverty of its members were forced to trust the publication and, accordingly, not to pay this way the book was lost in time. He had prepared a second book was called "Notes of a Risen?, Was Hesnor. Never published. The modest publishing venture of Revelation called "Damselfly? disappeared. Thus, between individual companies and others less fortunate, was forged the Surrealist movement in Venezuela, in the heart of a dark dictatorship.

Many of these poets had to go into exile, among other things, because this town is usually very little conformist and ambitions progress, behaviors that contrasted with the liberal and libertarian spirit of these artists of the poetic image. For those mysterious turns of fate end up mostly in Paris, where they reinforce their commitment to the word and the freedom that this is clear.