Rafael Maria Baralt

THE CENTENARY OF RAFAEL MAR II? A Baralt

(1810-1860).

"That if the land is yoked to his car,

as a slave without a soul,

freedom of the palm

I grabbed hold in my hands. "

Rafael Maria Baralt.

THE FIRST AMERICAN VOICE

THE ACADEMY OF LANGUAGE.

Barak's name, for most, is linked to the memory of his famous Gallic Dictionary, which is reissuing, because along with ideas and lesson contains much lively tired of saying good Castilian.

But the personality of Rafael Maria Baralt transcends its philological knowledge, exalted by Andrés Bello and Mila y Fontanals. The grandson of a native Catalan marine Arenys de Mar, Barak was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela on July 3, 1810. Received a humanistic education in his native city and in Bogota, played for his country's army, reaching the rank of captain and literary life began in Venezuela in journalism. At thirty years, Barak gave complete its amazing history of Venezuela, in three volumes, printed in Paris (1841), perhaps the great book "classic" American literature. Marco Fidel Suarez says: "He that feel like to write well, read this history. What simplicity, what language so chaste, what elegance, what clarity, what delicacy!"

It was his personality historian who called Barak to be sent to Spain, to study in the Spanish archives Venezuela's rights in the thorny question of boundary with British Guiana. This circumstance first resident in Seville and Madrid later brilliant career that took him a few years, to the forefront of intellectual and political life of Spain and became the first American writer who achieved the honor of being elected of the Royal Spanish Academy, as well as being director of the National Press and poet laureate of resonant events. In 1849 he won first prize at the Liceo de Madrid for his ode to Christopher Columbus. Spain decorated him as Commander of the Royal Order of Charles III.

By this time, Rafael Maria Baralt is appointed minister plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic for the recognition of this island as an independent nation from Spain. By political circumstances does not know Spain as ambassador, deprives him of his office and prosecuted in 1857.

The secret of this race is robust and thoughtful mind the breadth of his horizons, such as are evident in the academic discourse of income, according to Menendez Pelayo, "does not yield to any other among the many, some excellent at that time and have spoken similar act. "

Baralt happening in his armchair academic Donoso Cortés. And credits his mental force that comment away form the memory because of its predecessor, at the height of his meteoric prestige, spent all of his dissertation on an analysis of thought donosiano impetuous, attacking precisely from a Catholic point of view . Rafael María Maralt died in Madrid on January 4, 1860.

In the purely literary, besides the aforementioned Gallic Dictionary and the Dictionary Project matrix, grouped by semantic roots, which shocked and opened the doors of the Academy, we have to Baralt poetic production, if one looks into the assumptions rhetorical moves as part of the formal reaction to the spilled happened esproncediano romanticism, arouses the best consideration from a reader today. And, as our poet: "Return Teresa began to do your life / or paying the love inspired me / give me a Hispanic country in the ground."

Francisco Arias Solis

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