The Calambur Publishing House has recently published “A orillas del gran silencio” (On the Shore of the Great Silence), 82 years after the death of the poet from Seville, Antonio Machado.

The work contained in the anthology was selected by Professor Rafael Alarcón Sierra, one of his most renowned exegetes.

The anthology reminds us to what extent Machado continues to be a modern classic. In the 1940s, his work was intimate. A decade later, civic, and in the sixties, social. In the seventies Machado was a  symbolist, which in the eighties was taken as an example for the new trend. In the study that opens the anthology, Rafael Alarcón also emphasizes that Machado is inseparable from his civic and exemplary character. The poet wanted a new, educated, egalitarian and prosperous society, and in his work this political commitment is revealed with more bitterness than in his contemporaries.

Together with Juan Ramón Jiménez - both reclaimed another Andalusian, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, the three make up what Alarcón calls the column of modern Spanish poetry, where "we can leave some backbone for his brother Manuel or for Unamuno".

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