Julio Correa - Trajectory

Trajectory

Walter Wey, a Brazilian researcher, makes a colorful portrait of the multifaceted Correa: “Who does not know and admire Julio Correa? Poet, dramatist, businessman, storyteller and distiller of politic and literary poisons. Maybe the victims, men and women of his satirical stories, felt disrespected but all of them know those stories by memory. Hearing Correa recite them in Palma Street or in his country house in Luque constituted one of the most beautiful shows to witness. It was because of this, that he was persecuted and sometimes put in jail, to satisfaction of his detractors. But the applause and admiration of the people kept him going.

He was the creator of the Guarani theatre, its greater author and also its best actor. With great intuition he felt the Paraguayan problematic was the unjust distribution of land, because it was just like Justo Pastor Benítez wrote: “the Paraguayan people are just a mere occupant of his own land”. Correa had this saying for truth and became a fighter for the cause, standing against foreign and national large entailed land with enormous courage. In his house in Luque a single book cannot be seen, only farm animals, there is nothing that reminiscence the house of a poet.

Julio Correa is a poet without culture and, what’s more interesting, without the desire or preoccupation to acquire it. The poems in Spanish language he gathered in his book “Alma y Cuerpo” (Body and Soul) closed a period in time and marked the beginning of a new road, that would be widened by Hérib Campos Cervera, with the introduction of the “literature of vanguard” It is Campos Cervera, that completes the description of Correa, saying: “He is the great creator of images of our society and problematic, the drama of misery, land, blood and jealousy”.

The Paraguayan people have Correa as a mirror of its hope, pain, and joy. He did not settle for just creating a story character, he also manifested their joy and sadness, and their moral ups and downs. In stage, he showed the audience the different shades of passion, all the rage of hatred and the goodness of compassion, his voice transmitted the sentiment of his art.