{"id":10354,"date":"2019-12-24T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/personaje\/villalon-daoiz-y-halcon-fernando\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T08:05:18","slug":"villalon-daoiz-y-halcon-fernando","status":"publish","type":"personaje","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/personaje\/villalon-daoiz-y-halcon-fernando\/","title":{"rendered":"Villal\u00f3n-Dao\u00edz y Halc\u00f3n, Fernando"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Villal\u00f3n was a peculiar and fascinating character, almost indefinable if you add up all the titles and hobbies he accumulated in his short life. He was a cattle rancher, as well as a writer and aristocrat (he was Count of Miraflores de los \u00c1ngeles), farm owner (among other estates he owned the Cortijo de la Sierra de Gibalb\u00edn and the Dehesa Majada Vieja near Lebrija), theosophist, friend of the poets of the Generation of ’27 and dreamer (he joked that his ideal was to breed bulls with green eyes). He was born in Seville on May 31, 1880, and died ruined in a clinic in Madrid, accompanied by his wife, Concha Ramos, on March 8, 1930. He was a student at the Jesuit school of El Puerto, where he had been preceded by Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez<\/a>, Rafael Alberti<\/a> and Pedro Mu\u00f1oz Seca.<\/p>\n

At the Pino Montano meeting, friendship, celebration, companionship and literature alternated. After toasting G\u00f3ngora, Villal\u00f3n led a delirious session of hypnotism with Rafael Alberti as the victim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Villal\u00f3n published some books of prose and verse as legendary as his own life. His bibliography is short but unforgettable: Andaluc\u00eda la Baja<\/em>, La Toriada<\/em> and the Ballads of the 800<\/em>. The first, which appeared in October 1926, is a kind of lesson in love about the Andalusia where he lived; the second, published in August 1928, contains a collection of poems about the bull from a mythological point of view; and the third, from April 1929, only a year before his death, is a poem about historical events. Among his posthumous works are Taurofilia racial<\/em>, written in May 1926, a historical and critical essay on bulls and bullfighting composed in a rambling prose (“it is a calf that revolts me”, he said of it) and the smuggler drama Juan Ferm\u00edn de Plateros<\/em>, as well as some notebooks collected by his friend Ignacio S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas<\/a> but which never appeared. All his published work appeared in the environment of the foundational meeting of the Generation of ’27 at the Ateneo de Sevilla.<\/p>\n

\"Fernando<\/a>
Fernando Villal\u00f3n with the rod.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Villal\u00f3n’s maintained a close relationship with the great poets of 1927 and their contemporaries. The Ballads of the 800<\/em> bear the following dedication: “To Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez, in memory of our childhood imprisoned in the Jesuits of El Puerto”.<\/p>\n

He met Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca in a long literary party at the Pino Montano estate owned by the bullfighter Ignacio S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas after the meeting of the Generation of ’27 in Seville. Villal\u00f3n, like Cernuda<\/a> and other collaborators of the magazine Mediod\u00eda<\/em>, attended the founding act, although he does not appear in the photo that became the generational symbol. Only Rafael Alberti, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Juan Chab\u00e1s<\/a>, Mauricio Bacarisse, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Romero Mart\u00ednez, Manuel Blasco, Jorge Guill\u00e9n<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Bergam\u00edn<\/a>, D\u00e1maso Alonso<\/a> and Gerardo Diego<\/a> appear in the picture.<\/p>\n

\"Celebration<\/a>
Celebration of G\u00f3ngora’s tercentenary at the Ateneo de Sevilla (Athenaeum of Seville) in December 1927. From left to right: Rafael Alberti, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Juan Chab\u00e1s, Mauricio Bacarisse, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Romero Mart\u00ednez (president of the literature section of the Athenaeum), Manuel Blasco Garz\u00f3n (president of the Ateneo de Sevilla), Jorge Guill\u00e9n, Jos\u00e9 Bergam\u00edn, D\u00e1maso Alonso and Gerardo Diego.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the Pino Montano meeting, friendship, celebration, companionship and literature alternated. As described by researcher Eva D\u00edaz P\u00e9rez, after toasting G\u00f3ngora, Villal\u00f3n led a delirious session of hypnotism with Rafael Alberti as the victim. “Then there was flamenco, D\u00e1maso Alonso’s humorous Gongora recital, Garc\u00eda Lorca’s Dadaist jokes, Jorge Guill\u00e9n and Gerardo Diego’s Moorish disguises and a visit to the nearby Miraflores asylum to discover the steely outlines of surrealist madness,” she writes.<\/p>\n

His decline, however, was as rapid as his literary brilliance. In a letter to his cousin Manuel Halc\u00f3n he foresees the arrival of the Republic: “I fear very much the test to which the pigeon shooting or quail shooting aristocracy (to call it something) will be subjected, although the king will already know with whom he is gambling his money”.<\/p>\n

After selling his land and livestock (supposedly to Juan Belmonte) his star dimmed and he suffered the scorn of some of his friends. “This has been the failure of my life. I passed the pen of irony across many people’s faces, believing that I was not doing them any definite harm. Then I forgot them, but they didn’t forget me and they popped up everywhere. Sometimes I think I had a free circus door open. Those who laughed then left without leaving anything and the fools who endured my blows stayed inside waiting to get paid”, he confesses to Manuel Halc\u00f3n, in the book Memories of Fernando Villal\u00f3n. Poet of Andaluc\u00eda la Baja and bullfighting rancher<\/em> published in 1951.<\/p>\n

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