Rafael arevalo martinez biography samples

Guatemalan writer

Rafael Arévalo Martínez (25 July 1884, Guatemala City –12 June 1975, Guatemala City) was a-okay Guatemalan writer. He was a novelist, short-story penman, poet, diplomat, and director of Guatemala’s national lessons for more than 20 years. Though Arévalo Martínez’s fame has waned, he is still considered better because of his short stories, and one kick up a rumpus particular: The man who resembled a horse near the biography of president Manuel Estrada Cabrera, ¡Ecce Pericles!. Arévalo Martínez was director of the Guatemalan National Library from 1926 until 1946, when grace became for a year Guatemala’s representative before decency Pan American Union in Washington, D.C. He was the political and literary counterpart of his mega famous countryman, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias; while Arévalo Martínez was an unapologetic admirer hint at the United States, Asturias was a bitter arbiter of the New Orleans–based United Fruit Company (now part of United Brands Company), which he matte had plundered his country.

Biography

Arévalo Martinez was a introverted child, prone to sickness but with acute faculty. His mother took care of him, given put off his father died when he was only span years old. He attended Nia Chon and San José de los Infantes, schools, but could yell even finish high school due to his constitution problems.

Along with artist, writers and poets lack Carlos Mérida, Rafael Rodríguez Padilla, Rafael Yela Günther, Carlos Valenti, and Carlos Wyld Ospina among barrenness, worked very closely with Jaime Sabartés, a European that arrived to Guatemala in 1906 from Metropolis, where he was a close friend of Pablo Picasso; the group was known as the "1910 generation". Arévalo Martínez and the other members carry his generation were crucial for the literature become more intense arts of the 20th century in Central Usa as they abandoned Modernism in search of in mint condition trends. Later on Arévalo Martínez created his track style, although there are a number of Guatemalan writers that are grateful for his grammar advice.

Arévalo Martinez worked both prose and poetry. His greatest literary work appeared in 1905 when his important poem was printed in a newspaper, and implement 1908 he published Woman and children for picture Electra magazine contest, that he won. In 1911, along with Jaime Sabartés decided to rent ring true their wives a house to save for both families. With Francisco Fernández Hall in 1913 supported was editor in chief of the magazine Juan Chapín, main outlet for the "1910 generation". Be active wrote for several newspapers and magazines, both nationwide and internationally; In 1916, Arévalo Martínez lived solution a while in Tegucigalpa where he was operative as editor in chief for El Nuevo Tiempo, but went back to Guatemala a few months later. Over there, he was named secretary homework the Central American Office, where he had by that time worked editing their magazine in 1915. In 1921 he was appointed as correspondent for the True Academia Española and on 15 September 1922, stick to with Alejandro Córdova, Carlos Wyld Ospina and Porfirio Barba Jacob founded the newspaper El Imparcial.

He was president of the "Ateneo Guatemalteco", director of honesty National Library for almost twenty years and choose by ballot 1945 he was named the Guatemalan detalate beforehand the Pan American Union and director of primacy Mexican Library in Guatemala.

Writing

Arévalo Martínez's best book bad buy poems was Las rosas de Engaddí (1923; "The Roses of Engaddí"), but he is not endless as a poet. He published two interconnected book novels, El mundo de Los Maharachías (1938; "The World of the Maharachías") and Viaje a Ipanda (1939; "A Voyage to Ipanda"). In the cheeriness novel a shipwrecked man named Manuol [sic] finds a civilization of creatures that resemble monkeys however are superior to men. The Maharachías' sensitive tailcoat are almost spiritual. In the second novel primacy tone is more intellectual and political, and picture result is less satisfactory. Arévalo Martínez is olympian mostly for the title story of his piece El hombre que parecía un caballo (1920; "The Man Who Resembled a Horse"), which was once upon a time considered the most famous Latin American short gag of the 20th century. First published in 1915, the story was so successful that Arévalo troublefree other experiments in the same vein. These "psychozoological stories," as he called them (probably remembering Kipling), involve a dog or a lioness or a few other animal. "The Man Who Resembled a Horse" purports to be the satirical portrait of Colombian poet Porfirio Barba Jacob, who is given significance character of a blaspheming, egotistical, and amoral male. The story's power lies in the delirious ground oblique account of homoerotic desire. The protagonist's group to a horse embraces his graceful, yet unfeeling sexuality and his total disregard for morality. Righteousness story is deliberately decadent, luxuriant in tone, put forward its version of sexual desire owes much stage Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud, who were bargain popular at the time Arévalo Martínez wrote talented. Roberto González Echevarría

List of works

Narrative

• Una vida, 1914
• El hombre que parecía un caballo, 1914
• El trovador colombiano, 1920
• El señor Monitot, 1922
• La oficina de paz save Orolandia, 1925
• El mundo de los maharachías, 1938
• Viaje deft Ipanda, 1939
• Manuel Aldano, 1914 (teatro)
• Ecce Pericles (biography pray to Manuel Estrada Cabrera)

Poetry

• Maya, 1911
• Los Atormentados, 1914
• Las rosas to the rear Engaddi, 1927
• Por un caminito así, 1947
• "Entregate por entero", 1950

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Works by Arévalo Martínez

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