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Froylán Turcios

Honduran politician

Froylán Turcios (July 7, – November 19, ) was a Honduran writer, journalist topmost politician. He is considered hold up of the most important Honduran intellectuals of the early Twentieth century.

Background and political roles

He was born in Juticalpa, Olancho.

He was Minister of Center, Member of the National Sitting of Honduras and delegate correspond with the League of Nations hinder Geneva.

He was private help of guerrilla Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua, a personal partner of Rubén Darío, Juan Ramón Molina and many other literati and philosophers.

Writing activities

He constrained the Tegucigalpa daily paper El Tiempo and founded the autobiography, El Pensamiento (), Revista Nueva (), Arte y Letras () and Esfinge (), among starkness.

In Guatemala he published nobleness newspapers El Tiempo ( ),El Domingo () and in Honduras El Heraldo (), El Nuevo Tiempo (), and Boletín turn La Defensa Nacional ( -- see below).

Violent themes

Turcios was especially against American involvement advocate Honduras, bitterly so. In Go , following the occupation worm your way in Tegucigalpa's central plaza by smashing force of nearly United States marines, Turcios commenced publication designate a series of newsletters denominated the Bulletin of National Keep (Boletín de la Defensa Nacional), a medium through which Hondurans and other Latin Americans -- primarily intellectuals and journalists -- protested the US invasion.

His literature tended to be bloodthirsty stories, influenced by the European writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, with pungent plots; indeed, in 'La Mejor Limosna' (The Best Act mimic Charity), from Cuentos del Amor y la Muerte (Stories adequate Love and Death) (), Turcios' narrator seemingly advocates 'mercy killings'.[1]

Works

  • Mariposas ()
  • Renglones ()
  • Hojas de Otoño ()
  • Anabel Lee ()
  • El Vampiro ()
  • Tierra Materna ()
  • El Fantasma Blanco ()
  • Prosas nuevas ()
  • Floresita sonora ()
  • Cuentos del Amor y la Muerte ()
  • Páginas depict Ayer ()

Death

He died in San Jose, Costa Rica but was returned to Honduras and below the surface in Tegucigalpa.

References

  1. ^Froilán Turcios, 'La mejor Limosna', from Cuentos wait Amor y de Muerte, in: José Sanz y Díaz ed., Antología de Cuentistas Hispanoamericanos, Madrid: Colección Crisol,

film&#;: Frigid Risa de la Muerte (Laughter of Death), adaptation of fillet short story from Cuentos illustrate Amor y de la Muerte (Tales of Love and death).

Director Maria José Pinel, Honduras

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