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Andrés Caicedo

January 12, 2023

For the Colombian weightlifter, see Andrés Caicedo (weightlifter).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Caicedo and the second or maternal family name is Estela.

Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela (29 September 1951 – 4 March 1977) was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life. Despite his premature death, his works are considered to be some of the most original produced in Colombia.[1] Caicedo led different cultural movements in the city like the literary group "Los Dialogantes" (Those who speak), the Cinema Club of Cali and the "Ojo al Cine" Magazine (Attention to the Cinema). In 1970 he won the First Literary Contest of Caracas with his work "Los dientes de caperucita" (The Teeth of Little Red Riding Hood) that opened the doors of national recognition for him. Some sources say that he used to say that to live more than 25 years was a shame and it is seen as the main reason of his suicide on March 4, 1977, when he was that age.[2][3]

Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela
Born(1951-09-29)September 29, 1951
Cali, Colombia
Died4 March 1977(1977-03-04) (aged 25)
Cali, Colombia
Occupationnovelist, poet and playwright
Signature

Caicedo's work has as its context the urban world and its social conflicts, especially those of young people. Contrary to the school of magic realism, the work of Caicedo is grounded completely in social reality. Therefore, some scholars give importance to his work as an alternative in Latin America to prominent figures such as Gabriel García Márquez, especially through the research of the Chilean journalist, writer and movie critic Alberto Fuguet who called Caicedo "The first enemy of Macondo".[4] Despite his fame in Colombia, Caicedo is little known in Latin America, maybe for his early death. However his work is becoming known thanks to the influence of his works in new writer generations such as Rafael Chaparro, Efraim Medina Reyes, Manuel Giraldo, Octavio Escobar and Ricardo Abdahllah.

Biography

First years

Andrés Caicedo was the youngest surviving child and only surviving son of Carlos Alberto Caicedo and Nellie Estella. His brother Francisco José was born in 1958, but died three years later. By that time Andrés was studying in Colegio del Pilar, after he was in Colegio Pio XII, a "very bad Franciscan establishment" as he said years after. Because of his bad behavior in the school in Cali, he was transferred to the Colegio Calasanz in Medellín in 1964 and this was the year of his first story: "El Silencio" (The Silence). However, his academic and discipline was rather the same, a reason to be transferred again to Cali, this time to Colegio Berchmans, an institution that would influence his works. From Berchmans he was expelled to go to Colegio San Luis in 1966, again expelled and finally he could finish his high school in Colegio Camacho Perea in 1968.

Among pages, stages and cinema

Along with his passion for literature, Caicedo liked cinema and stage. In 1966, he wrote his first play, "Las curiosas conciencias" (Curious Minds) and his first story, "Infection". A year later he directed the play "The Bald Soprano" by Eugène Ionesco and he wrote "The End of the Vacations", "Welcoming the New Student", "The Sea", "The Imbeciles are also Witnesses" and "The Skin of the Other Hero". His last work would make him win the First Students' Theatre Festival of the Theatre Department of University of Valle. He abandoned the university in 1971 to join the Cali Theatre Company (Teatro Experimental de Cali) as an actor, and there he met the famous Colombian director Enrique Buenaventura.

In 1969 he also started to write cinema reviews for newspapers, for example in the Cali newspaper El País, in Occidente and El Pueblo. He got another award with his story "Berenice" in the Story Contest of the University of Valle, while his story "The Teeth of Little Red Riding Hood" won the second place of the Latin American Story Contest organized by the Caracas Image Magazine. He adapted and directed the work of Eugène Ionesco: "The Chairs". He wrote the story "For this reason I am back to my city", "Empty", "The Messengers", "Besacalles", "From Up to Down, From Left to Right", "The Spectator", "Happy Friendships" and "Lulita, that you do not want to open the door?".

The Cinema Club of Cali

 
A representation of a work of Caicedo, "Little Bogged Down Angels" (Angelitos empantanados) by Matacandelas Theatre Company of Medellín in 2003.

His love for cinema was the motive for opening the Cinema Club of Cali with his friends Ramiro Arbeláez, Hernando Guerrero and Luis Ospina es:Luis Ospina in 1969. It started its meetings in the headquarters of the Company of Theatre of Cali (Teatro Experimental de Cali), but later moved to the Alameda Cinema and finally to the San Fernando Cinema. The Cinema Club attracted many students, intellectuals and critics who used to watch the movies and meet afterwards to discuss and analyze the films with Caicedo.

In 1970 he adapted and directed The Night of the Assassins of José Triana and in that same year he wrote a new story, "Antígona". In 1971 he wrote stories like "Patricialinda", "Cannibalism", "Fatal Little Destinies", "Angelita and Miguel Ángel" and "El atravesado". He wrote also some essays: "The Heroes of the Beginning", an essay about the work of Mario Vargas Llosa, "The Time of the Hero" and "The Sea", an essay on the work of Harold Pinter.

His friend Carlos Mayolo tried unsuccessfully to bring to cinema his screenplay "Angelita and Miguel Angel" in 1972. In that year he wrote the screenplay "A Good Man is Very Difficult to Find" and the stories "The Suitor" and "The Time of the Swamp", which was awarded by the National Contents of Story of the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Looking for Hollywood

In 1973 Caicedo went to Los Angeles and New York. He knew sufficient English and had dreamed of meeting the legendary Roger Corman in order to sell to him four of his play scripts that his sister had translated into English.[5] He had come thinking that Hollywood would welcome him with open hands. However, the venture was unsuccessful and Corman never got ahold of his books.[6] About Hollywood he said:

It is a very difficult and labyrinthine world and those over there do not give support, fearing competition.[7]

As nobody in Hollywood paid attention to the "writer with the face of a rockstar" in the 1960s, Caicedo dedicated himself to watching movies, studying blues and rock, especially the Rolling Stones and writing a new story, ¡Que viva la música!, a work that was to become the most internationally recognized title of Caicedo so far. He also began work on "Memories of a Cinema Lover", a diary he intended to make into a novel.[8] However, he could have an interview with Sergio Leone and returned to Colombia.

Last years

Caicedo considered that his best work was "Maternity", a story written in 1974. In that year, he also published "Ojo al cine" (Attention to the Cinema), which would become one of the most important magazines on the topic in Colombia. He returned to the U.S., but this time to participate in the International Exposition of Cinema and a year later the publishing house "Pirata de Calidad" published his story "El Atravesado" thanks to the economic support of his mother, and his national recognition.

Suicide

Caicedo had mentioned that to live past the age of 25 was madness[9] and he died by suicide at age 25 on March 4, 1977. On the afternoon he died, he received a volume of his recently published book "Que viva la música!. He took 60 pills of secobarbital.[10] Analyzing his death, Alberto Fuguet says:

"Caicedo is the missing link of the lost boom. He is the first enemy of Macondo. I do not know if he committed suicide or maybe was killed by García Márquez and the dominant culture of the times. He was less the rocker that Colombians want and more of an intellectual. [He was] A super tormented, genial nerd. He had imbalances, life-induced anxiety. He was not comfortable with life. He had problems standing on his own two feet. And he had to write in order to survive. He killed himself because he saw too much."[11]

Influence

The first Colombian author to evince Caicedo's influence may be Manuel Giraldo Magil from the city of Ibagué, in his work "Concerts of Bewilderment" ("Conciertos del desconcierto"). In the 1990s the work of Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, "Opio en las nubes" (Opium in the Clouds), was viewed as a Caicedian piece of work. Other authors like Octavio Escobar Giraldo, Efraím Medina, and Ricardo Abdahllah are related to what is becoming a real literary school. The Theatre Company of the city of Medellín, Matacandelas, has played "Angelitos empantanados" for over a decade.

Works

Most of Caicedo's works were published after his death, thanks to the commitment of some of his friends. The works include in stories, playwrights for stage and cinema, and essays. Some of his personal letters to his mother, sisters and friends, were also published. The importance of the letters is that they show the turbulence of his soul.

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  • El cuento de mi vida (2007). Bogotá: Norma.
  • Noche sin fortuna / Antígona (2002). Bogotá: Norma.
  • Ojo al cine (1999). Bogotá: Norma.
  • Angelitos empantanados o historias para jovencitos / A propósito de Andrés Caicedo y su obra (1995). Bogotá: Norma.
  • Recibiendo al nuevo alumno (1995). Cali: Editorial de la Facultad de Humanidades. Universidad del Valle.
  • Destinitos fatales (1984). Bogotá: Oveja Negra.
  • Berenice / El atravesado / Maternidad / El Tiempo de la ciénaga (1978). Cali: Editorial Andes.

Novels

  • ¡Que viva la música! (1977)
  • Noche sin fortuna (unfinished) (1976)
  • La estatua del soldadito de plomo (unfinished) (1967)

Stories

  • Pronto (1976)
  • En las garras del crimen (1975)
  • Maternidad (1974)
  • El pretendiente (1972)
  • El tiempo de la ciénaga (1972)
  • El atravesado (1971)
  • Destinitos fatales (1971)
  • Calibanismo (1971)
  • Patricialinda (1971)
  • Antígona (1970)
  • Berenice (1969)
  • Lulita, ¿qué no quiere abrir la puerta? (1969)
  • Felices amistades (1969)
  • El espectador (1969)
  • De arriba a abajo de izquierda a derecha (1969)
  • Besacalles (1969)
  • Vacíos (1969)
  • Por eso yo regreso a mi ciudad (1969)
  • Infección (1966)
  • Los mensajeros (1969)
  • Los dientes de Caperucita (1969)
  • Infección (1966)
  • El silencio (1964)

Writings for cinema and stage

  • Un hombre bueno es difícil de encontrar (1972)
  • El fin de las vacaciones (1967)
  • Recibiendo al nuevo alumno (1967)
  • El mar (1967)
  • Los imbéciles también son testigos (1967)
  • La piel del otro héroe (1967)
  • Las curiosas conciencias (1966)

References

  1. ^ Centro Virtual Isaacs, Andrés Caicedo: Biografía Archived 2012-07-02 at archive.today. Universidad del Valle, link retrieved on June 14, 2008.
  2. ^ MEDELLÍN BECERRA, Jorge Alejandro y Diana Fajardo Rivera, Diccionario de Colombia, Ed. Norma, Bogotá, 2005-2006, p. 149, ISBN 958-04-8561-5
  3. ^ Other sources say that he used to say: "vivir más de veinticinco años era una insensatez" (to live more than 25 years old is madness), like this biography Archived 2012-07-02 at archive.today of the Isaacs Virtual Center of the Universidad del Valle, link retrieved on June 14, 2008.
  4. ^ CAREAGA, Roberto, "Fuguet prepara antología de Andrés Caicedo, el primer enemigo de Macondo", La Tercera, Santiago de Chile, 22 de febrero de 2008, Link retrieved on June 14, 2008.
  5. ^ CAREAGA, Roberto: "Fuguet prepara antología de Andrés Caicedo, el primer enemigo de Macondo", La Tercera, Santiago de Chile, link retrieved on June 14, 2008.
  6. ^ Corporación Otraparte: "El Atravesado, de Andrés Caicedo 2015-11-04 at the Wayback Machine", Teatro Frastricida, Envigado, June 8, 2007. Link retraived on June 14, 2008.
  7. ^ Letter to his mother in 1973.
  8. ^ Corporación Otraparte: "El Atravesado, de Andrés Caicedo 2015-11-04 at the Wayback Machine", Teatro Frastricida, Envigado, June 8, 2007. Link retrieved on June 14, 2008.
  9. ^ ¡Qué viva la música!, sinópsis by es.shvoong.com. Link retrieved on June 14, 2008.
  10. ^ Centro Virtual Isaacs: Biografía de Andrés Caicedo Archived 2012-07-02 at archive.today, Universidad del Valle, Cali. Link retrieved on June 14, 2008.
  11. ^ CAREAGA, Roberto, Fuguet prepara antología de Andrés Caicedo, el primer enemigo de Macondo Archived 2012-06-29 at archive.today, La Tercera, Santiago de Chile, February 22, 2008. Link retrieved on June 14, 2008.

External links

  • . A complete virtual storage about Caicedo's works. (in Spanish)
  • andres_caicedo.page Andrés Caicedo ( 2009-10-25): A detailed site about Caicedo's life and works (in Spanish)
  • Andrés Caicedo (First part) on YouTube: Segment of a documentary on Andrés Caicedo with interviews to some of his friends and relatives, uploaded in 2006, link retrieved on June 15, 2008.
  • Andrés Caicedo A page about Caicedo's life and works (in Spanish)

January 12, 2023
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For the Colombian weightlifter see Andres Caicedo weightlifter In this Spanish name the first or paternal surname is Caicedo and the second or maternal family name is Estela Luis Andres Caicedo Estela 29 September 1951 4 March 1977 was a Colombian writer born in Cali the city where he would spend most of his life Despite his premature death his works are considered to be some of the most original produced in Colombia 1 Caicedo led different cultural movements in the city like the literary group Los Dialogantes Those who speak the Cinema Club of Cali and the Ojo al Cine Magazine Attention to the Cinema In 1970 he won the First Literary Contest of Caracas with his work Los dientes de caperucita The Teeth of Little Red Riding Hood that opened the doors of national recognition for him Some sources say that he used to say that to live more than 25 years was a shame and it is seen as the main reason of his suicide on March 4 1977 when he was that age 2 3 Luis Andres Caicedo EstelaBorn 1951 09 29 September 29 1951Cali ColombiaDied4 March 1977 1977 03 04 aged 25 Cali ColombiaOccupationnovelist poet and playwrightSignatureCaicedo s work has as its context the urban world and its social conflicts especially those of young people Contrary to the school of magic realism the work of Caicedo is grounded completely in social reality Therefore some scholars give importance to his work as an alternative in Latin America to prominent figures such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez especially through the research of the Chilean journalist writer and movie critic Alberto Fuguet who called Caicedo The first enemy of Macondo 4 Despite his fame in Colombia Caicedo is little known in Latin America maybe for his early death However his work is becoming known thanks to the influence of his works in new writer generations such as Rafael Chaparro Efraim Medina Reyes Manuel Giraldo Octavio Escobar and Ricardo Abdahllah Contents 1 Biography 1 1 First years 1 2 Among pages stages and cinema 1 3 The Cinema Club of Cali 1 4 Looking for Hollywood 1 5 Last years 1 6 Suicide 2 Influence 3 Works 3 1 Novels 3 2 Stories 3 3 Writings for cinema and stage 4 References 5 External linksBiography EditFirst years Edit Andres Caicedo was the youngest surviving child and only surviving son of Carlos Alberto Caicedo and Nellie Estella His brother Francisco Jose was born in 1958 but died three years later By that time Andres was studying in Colegio del Pilar after he was in Colegio Pio XII a very bad Franciscan establishment as he said years after Because of his bad behavior in the school in Cali he was transferred to the Colegio Calasanz in Medellin in 1964 and this was the year of his first story El Silencio The Silence However his academic and discipline was rather the same a reason to be transferred again to Cali this time to Colegio Berchmans an institution that would influence his works From Berchmans he was expelled to go to Colegio San Luis in 1966 again expelled and finally he could finish his high school in Colegio Camacho Perea in 1968 Among pages stages and cinema Edit Along with his passion for literature Caicedo liked cinema and stage In 1966 he wrote his first play Las curiosas conciencias Curious Minds and his first story Infection A year later he directed the play The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco and he wrote The End of the Vacations Welcoming the New Student The Sea The Imbeciles are also Witnesses and The Skin of the Other Hero His last work would make him win the First Students Theatre Festival of the Theatre Department of University of Valle He abandoned the university in 1971 to join the Cali Theatre Company Teatro Experimental de Cali as an actor and there he met the famous Colombian director Enrique Buenaventura In 1969 he also started to write cinema reviews for newspapers for example in the Cali newspaper El Pais in Occidente and El Pueblo He got another award with his story Berenice in the Story Contest of the University of Valle while his story The Teeth of Little Red Riding Hood won the second place of the Latin American Story Contest organized by the Caracas Image Magazine He adapted and directed the work of Eugene Ionesco The Chairs He wrote the story For this reason I am back to my city Empty The Messengers Besacalles From Up to Down From Left to Right The Spectator Happy Friendships and Lulita that you do not want to open the door The Cinema Club of Cali Edit A representation of a work of Caicedo Little Bogged Down Angels Angelitos empantanados by Matacandelas Theatre Company of Medellin in 2003 His love for cinema was the motive for opening the Cinema Club of Cali with his friends Ramiro Arbelaez Hernando Guerrero and Luis Ospina es Luis Ospina in 1969 It started its meetings in the headquarters of the Company of Theatre of Cali Teatro Experimental de Cali but later moved to the Alameda Cinema and finally to the San Fernando Cinema The Cinema Club attracted many students intellectuals and critics who used to watch the movies and meet afterwards to discuss and analyze the films with Caicedo In 1970 he adapted and directed The Night of the Assassins of Jose Triana and in that same year he wrote a new story Antigona In 1971 he wrote stories like Patricialinda Cannibalism Fatal Little Destinies Angelita and Miguel Angel and El atravesado He wrote also some essays The Heroes of the Beginning an essay about the work of Mario Vargas Llosa The Time of the Hero and The Sea an essay on the work of Harold Pinter His friend Carlos Mayolo tried unsuccessfully to bring to cinema his screenplay Angelita and Miguel Angel in 1972 In that year he wrote the screenplay A Good Man is Very Difficult to Find and the stories The Suitor and The Time of the Swamp which was awarded by the National Contents of Story of the Universidad Externado de Colombia Looking for Hollywood Edit In 1973 Caicedo went to Los Angeles and New York He knew sufficient English and had dreamed of meeting the legendary Roger Corman in order to sell to him four of his play scripts that his sister had translated into English 5 He had come thinking that Hollywood would welcome him with open hands However the venture was unsuccessful and Corman never got ahold of his books 6 About Hollywood he said It is a very difficult and labyrinthine world and those over there do not give support fearing competition 7 As nobody in Hollywood paid attention to the writer with the face of a rockstar in the 1960s Caicedo dedicated himself to watching movies studying blues and rock especially the Rolling Stones and writing a new story Que viva la musica a work that was to become the most internationally recognized title of Caicedo so far He also began work on Memories of a Cinema Lover a diary he intended to make into a novel 8 However he could have an interview with Sergio Leone and returned to Colombia Last years Edit Caicedo considered that his best work was Maternity a story written in 1974 In that year he also published Ojo al cine Attention to the Cinema which would become one of the most important magazines on the topic in Colombia He returned to the U S but this time to participate in the International Exposition of Cinema and a year later the publishing house Pirata de Calidad published his story El Atravesado thanks to the economic support of his mother and his national recognition Suicide Edit Caicedo had mentioned that to live past the age of 25 was madness 9 and he died by suicide at age 25 on March 4 1977 On the afternoon he died he received a volume of his recently published book Que viva la musica He took 60 pills of secobarbital 10 Analyzing his death Alberto Fuguet says Caicedo is the missing link of the lost boom He is the first enemy of Macondo I do not know if he committed suicide or maybe was killed by Garcia Marquez and the dominant culture of the times He was less the rocker that Colombians want and more of an intellectual He was A super tormented genial nerd He had imbalances life induced anxiety He was not comfortable with life He had problems standing on his own two feet And he had to write in order to survive He killed himself because he saw too much 11 Influence EditThe first Colombian author to evince Caicedo s influence may be Manuel Giraldo Magil from the city of Ibague in his work Concerts of Bewilderment Conciertos del desconcierto In the 1990s the work of Rafael Chaparro Madiedo Opio en las nubes Opium in the Clouds was viewed as a Caicedian piece of work Other authors like Octavio Escobar Giraldo Efraim Medina and Ricardo Abdahllah are related to what is becoming a real literary school The Theatre Company of the city of Medellin Matacandelas has played Angelitos empantanados for over a decade Works EditMost of Caicedo s works were published after his death thanks to the commitment of some of his friends The works include in stories playwrights for stage and cinema and essays Some of his personal letters to his mother sisters and friends were also published The importance of the letters is that they show the turbulence of his soul permanent dead link El cuento de mi vida 2007 Bogota Norma Noche sin fortuna Antigona 2002 Bogota Norma Ojo al cine 1999 Bogota Norma Angelitos empantanados o historias para jovencitos A proposito de Andres Caicedo y su obra 1995 Bogota Norma Recibiendo al nuevo alumno 1995 Cali Editorial de la Facultad de Humanidades Universidad del Valle Destinitos fatales 1984 Bogota Oveja Negra Berenice El atravesado Maternidad El Tiempo de la cienaga 1978 Cali Editorial Andes Novels Edit Que viva la musica 1977 Noche sin fortuna unfinished 1976 La estatua del soldadito de plomo unfinished 1967 Stories Edit Pronto 1976 En las garras del crimen 1975 Maternidad 1974 El pretendiente 1972 El tiempo de la cienaga 1972 El atravesado 1971 Destinitos fatales 1971 Calibanismo 1971 Patricialinda 1971 Antigona 1970 Berenice 1969 Lulita que no quiere abrir la puerta 1969 Felices amistades 1969 El espectador 1969 De arriba a abajo de izquierda a derecha 1969 Besacalles 1969 Vacios 1969 Por eso yo regreso a mi ciudad 1969 Infeccion 1966 Los mensajeros 1969 Los dientes de Caperucita 1969 Infeccion 1966 El silencio 1964 Writings for cinema and stage Edit Un hombre bueno es dificil de encontrar 1972 El fin de las vacaciones 1967 Recibiendo al nuevo alumno 1967 El mar 1967 Los imbeciles tambien son testigos 1967 La piel del otro heroe 1967 Las curiosas conciencias 1966 References Edit Centro Virtual Isaacs Andres Caicedo Biografia Archived 2012 07 02 at archive today Universidad del Valle link retrieved on June 14 2008 MEDELLIN BECERRA Jorge Alejandro y Diana Fajardo Rivera Diccionario de Colombia Ed Norma Bogota 2005 2006 p 149 ISBN 958 04 8561 5 Other sources say that he used to say vivir mas de veinticinco anos era una insensatez to live more than 25 years old is madness like this biography Archived 2012 07 02 at archive today of the Isaacs Virtual Center of the Universidad del Valle link retrieved on June 14 2008 CAREAGA Roberto Fuguet prepara antologia de Andres Caicedo el primer enemigo de Macondo La Tercera Santiago de Chile 22 de febrero de 2008 Link retrieved on June 14 2008 CAREAGA Roberto Fuguet prepara antologia de Andres Caicedo el primer enemigo de Macondo La Tercera Santiago de Chile link retrieved on June 14 2008 Corporacion Otraparte El Atravesado de Andres Caicedo Archived 2015 11 04 at the Wayback Machine Teatro Frastricida Envigado June 8 2007 Link retraived on June 14 2008 Letter to his mother in 1973 Corporacion Otraparte El Atravesado de Andres Caicedo Archived 2015 11 04 at the Wayback Machine Teatro Frastricida Envigado June 8 2007 Link retrieved on June 14 2008 Que viva la musica sinopsis by es shvoong com Link retrieved on June 14 2008 Centro Virtual Isaacs Biografia de Andres Caicedo Archived 2012 07 02 at archive today Universidad del Valle Cali Link retrieved on June 14 2008 CAREAGA Roberto Fuguet prepara antologia de Andres Caicedo el primer enemigo de Macondo Archived 2012 06 29 at archive today La Tercera Santiago de Chile February 22 2008 Link retrieved on June 14 2008 External links Edit Sobre Andres Caicedo site A complete virtual storage about Caicedo s works in Spanish andres caicedo page Andres Caicedo Archived 2009 10 25 A detailed site about Caicedo s life and works in Spanish Andres Caicedo First part on YouTube Segment of a documentary on Andres Caicedo with interviews to some of his friends and relatives uploaded in 2006 link retrieved on June 15 2008 Andres Caicedo A page about Caicedo s life and works in Spanish Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Andres Caicedo amp oldid 1124134014, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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