Claudio Guillén

Claudio Guillén Cahen (September 2, 1924 in Paris – January 27, 2007 in Madrid), known as Claudio Guillén, was a Spanish writer and literary scholar.

Caludio Guillén was born in Paris in 1924. His father was the poet Jorge Guillén, a prominent poet of the Generation of '27 and a scholar and literary critic as well. His mother was Germaine Cahen, Jorge Guillén's first wife. At the age of fifteen, after the Spanish Civil War, he and his family were forced to exile to the USA. He studied in Seville, Paris and the USA, where he attended the Williams College. He was a volunteer during the World War II in the side of De Gaulle. Among his instructors, there were some Spanish republican intellectuals: Francisco García Lorca (brother of Federico García Lorca), José Ferrater Mora and Joaquín Casalduero. He studied also with Werner Wilhelm, Amado Alonso and read comprehensively the works of Harry Levin. He obtained his PhD dregree from Harvard in 1953 and he specialized in comparative literature.

Between 1965 and 1985, Claudio Guillén was a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, Princeton University and Harvard University, where he met Roman Jakobson. He was a visiting fellow in Germany, Italy, Brazil, among others; and speaker at conferences, seminars and courses in China, the USSR and several Eastern European countries. He frequented some circles of exiled Spanish intelctuals and kept in contact with Ángel del Río, Américo Castro or Pedro Salinas.

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