Andrés Chabrillón

Who was Andrés Chabrillón?

Andrés Chabrillón was an Argentine poet, writer, lecturer and literature professor of French descent.

Chabrillón was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, and later lived in Buenos Aires.

He travelled widely across Europe and the Americas. In 1911 he published his first book of poems, entitled "A la luz de una sombra".

He is considered one of the advanced poets of the creationism movement that was initiated with Vicente Huidobro and Pierre Reverdy. He handled the historical, the specific, the picturesque, the artificial, and sometimes he took for himself some elements of symbolism, of the Parnaso and those of decadentism. As Mastronardi would do in the next movement, Chabrillón pioneered the modernist "Kermesse porteña" in a very "entrerrianian" way.

He belonged to the group of Bohemians who would meet at the Café de los Inmortales in Buenos Aires.

Evaristo Carriego, Ghiraldo, Álvaro Melián Lafinur, Enrique Banchs, Juan Pedro Calou, Roberto F. Giusti, Alfredo Bianchi, Juan Pablo Echagüe, Hugo de Achával, Natalio Botana, Alberto Gerchunoff, Charles de Soussens, Roberto J. Payró, Luis Doello Jurado, Edmundo Montagne, Bernardo González Arrili, Domingo Robatto, Héctor Pedro Blomberg, Federico Carlando, Juan Francisco Palerino, Fernán Félix de Amador and the viscount Emilio de Lascano Tegui were some of the poets and writers that used to share their time with Chabrillón.