Blas de Otero Muñoz was a social poet who fought his whole life against the Franco regime, but his curiosity was also proven on the date of his birth, since Ruben Dario was born a month before his death in Nicaragua. Juan Ramon Jimenez was about to start the diary of the newlywed poet.Fate did not want to have a poetic emptiness.
If we talk about relatives, we can see that in the war of 1914, many Spanish bourgeois had the opportunity to do business without problems, especially in the metallurgical industry. This is how the poet's father increased his fortune this year, despite the fact that in 1929 he suffered the consequences of a recession that ended with the dream of a “happy twenties”.
On the pages of the Foundation of Poets, they mentioned that it took 10 years to become a wealthy boy. At the age of 7 he entered the school of Dona María de Maeztu, where he learned his first letter with warm teaching, but soon he was torn from that refuge and started high school in a strict Jesuit school (“I do not blame the memory of depression.”
As a matter of war, my father decided to move to Madrid in 1927 with his whole family in order to reclaim his fortune. There, Blas de Otero discovers “freedom on the streets of Madrid, love from childhood and, according to old family traditions, to take bullfighting classes at the Las Ventas bullfighting school.”
However, her future was determined by the death of her father in her mid-teens and two years later. “My brother, who was about to study literature, but died at the age of 16, had already started the law and the family encouraged me to sit down.”
After returning to Bilbao, he devoted himself to studying law, and a few years later he obtained a degree in law. However, he had to hide economic problems from his circle of friends, because he joined the Basque battalion, which was fighting against the Franco army, although the Civil War surprised him.
In the early 1950s, he attempted to publish a book entitled “I ask for peace and the word”, but when the author was able to publish this poem with light, he faced a ban on censorship, referring to the rationale that some words should be replaced with others.For a harmless dictatorship: “God, become 'sun', 'phalanx' becomes 'R Angels'.”
Since he talked about religious, existential and social stages in his poetic works, he is widely known for his poetry and the subject he wrote about.
Blas de Otero Munoz died in Mahada Honda on June 29, 1979, and doctors believe it was pulmonary embolism that killed him.
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