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Los placeres prohibidos
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- In Luis Cernuda
Later collections of poems, notably Los placeres prohibidos (1931; “Forbidden Pleasures”), were influenced by Surrealism and indicate an increasing bitterness toward life—influenced by facing his homosexual orientation. All of his poems were collected in La realidad y el deseo (“Reality and Desire”), which was frequently expanded and reissued.
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