Antonio Martínez Sarrión: a vanguard of the ancestors (1939-2021)

Abstract

This necrology focuses on the poet Antonio Martínez de Sarrión, whose first poems were approved by Jaime Gil de Biedma, among other examiners. Throughout the text, the polarity of four types of Spain is explained, in which the writer was immersed from his youth. He became a kind of a vanguard of the ancestors, a kind of "cosmopolitan costumbrist" who knew how to harmoniously mix the different perspectives that in the country, at that time, were facing each other. In his works and his character, he was always a local and he followed his own path, as his publications, his unique style and his life trajectory show. This obituary summarizes all this and highlights his most important works.