{"id":3183,"date":"2018-09-01T12:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2018-09-01T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:21:01","slug":"vicente-aleixandres-admission-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/2018\/09\/01\/vicente-aleixandres-admission-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicente Aleixandre\u2019s admission exam"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Versi\u00f3n en Espa\u00f1ol)<\/a><\/p>\n

The history of thousands of students is documented in our archives. We even have documents prior to the high school\u2019s founding in 1846 since it incorporated the archives of the Real Colegio de San Telmo from the 18<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> century. In the archives, we preserve some records of children who ended up making history in universal culture and science. On this occasion, we present Vicente Aleixandre\u2019s admission exam. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977. The exam was hard to pass, and it usually contained a little dictation of an extract of <\/span>Don Quixoje<\/i><\/span> and one arithmetic operation. It\u2019s dated on the 1<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup> June 1908. The following year he moved to Madrid where he finished his Bachillerato studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

What comes next are some of the words that he dedicated to M\u00e1laga, the City of Paradise in one of his poems:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have lived in M\u00e1laga nearly all my life. My father was a railway engineer, and I was born in Seville because my father worked there. Then he was sent to M\u00e1laga, where there the headquarters were. It had a beautiful name, the \u2018Compa\u00f1\u00eda de los Ferrocarriles Andaluces\u2019 [Andalusian Railways Company in English]. It was a very large and ramshackle building, and the Malageneans, who name and baptise things upon seeing them, used to call that huge ramshackle headquarters \u2018El Palacio de la Tinta\u2019 (the Ink Palace in English).<\/span><\/p>\n

My parents, my sister and I lived in M\u00e1laga until 1909. I got time to enjoy life, to learn to read, to go to school… I still remember the name of the school\u2019s headmaster, don Buanaventura Barranco Bosch. He had a fierce moustache, like a kaiser, but above it he had kind eyes. It seems like my fate as a poet of a determined generation, which was destinguished for the friendship among its poets, was already coming to life. Because in primary school, I was the schoolmate and then the friend of whom would later be one of my poetry mates: Emilio Prados. I think this was the oldest friendship from the generation. Emilio lived in Calle Larios and I used to go there by myself, scream for him to come down and walk to Calle Granada where the school was. It was a time when M\u00e1laga was considered pleasant, Manolo Blasco, Picasso\u2019s cousin, painted the Malaga of the beginning of the 20<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> century in a very emotional way, and that is the M\u00e1laga I lived in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Versi\u00f3n en Espa\u00f1ol) The history of thousands of students is documented in our archives. We even have documents prior to the high school\u2019s founding in 1846 since it incorporated the archives of the Real...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsaverroes.juntadeandalucia.es\/iesmartiricos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}