Enrique Gómez Correa

He studied at the Lyceum for Boys at Abate Molina de Talca, his hometown, where he met Braulio Arenas and Teófilo Cid, with whom he founded the Chilean surrealist Mandrágora group on 18 July 1938, at the University of Chile.

It addressed the issue of mental illness and the approach of madness in society, while also articulating the judicial, social and poetic aspects of this condition.

[citation needed] Gomez Correa was friends with Vicente Huidobro and Pablo de Rokha, who both declared the Chilean who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Prostrate, he read esoteric works and watched the leaves that covered the window of his bedroom, reflecting on his condition: "I, who have loved plants, and consider them extremely powerful, I'm now finishing my days as one."

He died after 12 years in bed with paralyzed legs, on 27 July 1995, at his old house in Galvarino Gallardo street (in Providencia, Chile), at age 79.