Adolfo Costa du Rels
Adolfo Costa du Rels (born June 19, 1891 in Sucre ; † 1980 ) was a Bolivian writer and politician.
Life
Jules Adolfo Costa Du Rels was the son of Amelia Marguerite Du Rels Medeiros and Domingo Costa, a French engineer. He spent his school days in Corsica and then studied law at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1912 he worked in Bolivia as an oil prospector. In 1916 he was secretary of the Incahuasi Petroleum Syndicate , in the same year he acquired the oil production rights to 500,000 hectares of land in the Azurduy province .
In 1919 José Gutiérrez Guerra appointed him to the diplomatic corps . In 1928, Costa du Rels was appointed Minister of Finance for Bolivia. In 1939 he was sent to the League of Nations in Geneva ; there he represented his home country until 1946. In 1948 he became Bolivian Foreign Minister. In 1967 he represented Bolivia at UNESCO in Paris.
reception
Costa du Rels published his literary work in French and Spanish. One of his best-known works is the novel “Tierras hechzadas” from 1940, which was published in French as early as 1931 under the title “Terres embrasées”. In it he addresses an archaic father-son conflict. He melodramatically describes the life and work of Pedro Vidal, a large landowner who cruelly rules over his lands. He dies scared to death when his son appears alive before him, even though he himself threw him into a ravine to kill him.
In his novel “La laguna H. 3.” he addresses the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay . This novel was also first published in French.
Works (selection)
- biography
- The croiés de la haute mer . 1953.
- stories
- El embrujo del oro . 1943.
- Miskki-Simi .
- El traje de Árlequin . 1921 (together with A. Ostria Gutiérrez).
- Essays
- The drama de escritor bilingual . 1942.
- Félix Avelino Aramayo y su época. 1846-1929 . 1942.
- Novels
- La chaskañawi . 1947.
- Coronel . 1932.
- La laguna H. 3.
- Tierras hechizadas . 1940.
- Plays
- Les étendards du roi . 1957.
- Les forces du silence . 1944.
- Hacia el atardecer . 1919.
literature
- Roberto Querejazu Calvo: Adolfo Costa du Rels. El hombre, el diplomático, el escritor . Los amigos del libro, La Paz 1982.
- Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 134-135.
- Fausto Reinaga: Adolfo Costa du Rels . In: Cultura boliviana , vol. 4 (1967), issue 25, pp. 26-27 and 35.
- Gaby Vallejo de Bolívar: El tiempo de dios y la literatura de Adolfo Costa du Rels . In: Signo 1984, No. 12, pp. 43-47.
Web links
- Adolfo Costa du Rels El Poder de la Palabra
- Literature by and about Adolfo Costa du Rels in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erick Detlef Langer, Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia : 1880–1930, p. 48
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| José R. Estenssoro | Bolivian Minister of Finance November 1927 to 1928 |
Carlos Calvo |
| Antonio Quijarro Quevedo | Bolivian Ambassador to Buenos Aires 1943 to 1944 |
Gabriel Gosálvez Tejada |
| Tomás Manuel Elío Bustillos |
Bolivian Foreign Minister March 1 to August 9, 1948 |
Arturo Gutiérrez Tezanos Pinto |
| Gabriel Gosálvez Tejada |
Bolivian Ambassador in Paris July 12, 1949 to October 14, 1954 |
Adrián Barrenechea Torrés |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rels, Adolfo Costa you |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bolivian writer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sucre |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |