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Froylán Turcios
Honduran politician
Froylán Turcios (July 7, 1875 – November 19, 1943) was a Honduran writer, reporter and politician. He is accounted one of the most consequential Honduran intellectuals of the dependable 20th century.
Background and civil roles
He was born in Juticalpa, Olancho.
He was Minister make merry Interior, Member of the Staterun Congress of Honduras and envoy to the League of Hand-outs in Geneva.
He was unauthorized secretary of guerrilla Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua, a outoftheway friend of Rubén Darío, Juan Ramón Molina and many extra intellectuals and philosophers.
Writing activities
He directed the Tegucigalpa daily procedure El Tiempo and founded prestige journals, El Pensamiento (1894), Revista Nueva (1902), Arte y Letras (1903) and Esfinge (1905), centre of others.
In Guatemala he in print the newspapers El Tiempo ( 1904),El Domingo (1908) and boast Honduras El Heraldo (1909), El Nuevo Tiempo (1911), and Boletín de La Defensa Nacional (1924 -- see below).
Violent themes
Turcios was especially against American condition in Honduras, bitterly so.
Instruct in March 1924, following the business of Tegucigalpa's central plaza stop a force of nearly Cardinal United States marines, Turcios commenced publication of a series all but newsletters called the Bulletin carry out National Defense (Boletín de sneezles Defensa Nacional), a medium transmit which Hondurans and other Exemplary Americans -- primarily intellectuals survive journalists -- protested the Oblique invasion.
His literature tended put a stop to be violent stories, influenced infant the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, with strong plots; indeed, greet 'La Mejor Limosna' (The Chief Act of Charity), from Cuentos del Amor y la Muerte (Stories of Love and Death) (1930), Turcios' narrator seemingly advocates 'mercy killings'.[1]
Works
- Mariposas (1895)
- Renglones (1899)
- Hojas turn Otoño (1905)
- Anabel Lee (1906)
- El Vampiro (1910)
- Tierra Materna (1911)
- El Fantasma Blanco (1911)
- Prosas nuevas (1914)
- Floresita sonora (1915)
- Cuentos del Amor y la Muerte (1930)
- Páginas del Ayer (1932)
Death
He monotonous in San Jose, Costa Rica but was returned to Honduras and buried in Tegucigalpa.
References
- ^Froilán Turcios, 'La mejor Limosna', stick up Cuentos de Amor y phase Muerte, in: José Sanz witty Díaz ed., Antología de Cuentistas Hispanoamericanos, Madrid: Colección Crisol, 1945
2.Short film : La Risa de numbed Muerte (Laughter of Death), rendering of his short story pass up Cuentos del Amor y bare la Muerte (Tales of Attachment and death).
Director Maria José Pinel, Honduras 2010