A tribute to Machado in 1966: the correspondence addressed to J.M. Caballero Bonald

Abstract

This article takes into account part of the letters José Manuel Caballero Bonald received as a member of the Organizing Committee for the failed homage to Antonio Machado that was to be celebrated in the Andalusian city of Baeza, where the writer had worked as a French professor since 1912. This correspondence, still unpublished, focuses on that tribute which the Franco regime forbade; in case of being held in February of 1966, it would have gathered around the figure of the poet the most important artists and writers of the time.