Fernando Centeno Güell the search for a young poet in two eras

Abstract

There was once a little boy born near the Central Market of San José, who shortly after the 1910 earthquake went to Cartago with Carlos and Emilia, his parents, to live in the rebuilt house of his Grandmother Filomena, that first Normal Teacher of Costa Rica. who was his pride, located on the west side of the Plaza de La Soledad. In the old City of Mud, Fernando became the delight of Eterna —his near-great-aunt—, of Uncle Ricardo, and his first cousins Alfonso, Jesús, Luis, Juan Rafael and Mercedes, who were much older than him. There, like all the children in the family, he absorbed literature and good speech, and suggested the customary torture of learning poetry and lapidary phrases by heart, the same ones that he would use years later to beat me and correct my excesses.