Carlos Wyld Ospina

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Carlos Wyld Ospina (born June 19, 1891 in Antigua Guatemala , † June 19, 1956 in Quetzaltenango ) was a Guatemalan novelist , essayist and poet.

biography

Wyld Ospina's paternal grandfather was from England. His father Guillermo Wyld Quiñones himself was a Guatemalan and married Soledad Ospina Chaparro, a niece of the Colombian President Mariano Ospina Rodríguez .

Ospina spent long periods of time in Mexico and Guatemala City , but most of his life in Quetzaltenango. He worked in a wide variety of professions; u. a. he was also a lecturer in Spanish and Ibero-American literature for some time. He experienced the revolution in Mexico as a war correspondent. He also fought in the resistance against the dictator Manuel José Estrada Cabrera .

Together with Porfirio Barba Jacob he founded the newspaper “Churubusco” in Mexico and directed the magazine “El Zaraguate” in Guatemala. He was a member of the literary group Los Líricos , which also included Alberto Velásquez Günther , Carlos Mérida and Rafael Yela Günther , as well as a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and the Sociedad de Geografía e Historia.

He was married to the writer Amalia Chévez .

reception

Wyld Ospina's first novel “El solar de los Gonzagas” was written between 1917 and 1919. In it he addressed the decline of an almost absolutist society through the loss of its supremacy and the rise of a new, wealthy upper class. Depicted on an impoverished aristocrat who, despite class arrogance , has to overcome himself to marry far below his social level (which no longer exists) in order to maintain his family.

With "La gringa", Wyld Ospina created a novel of Guatemalan, but also entirely Central American, literature that is still important today. His female protagonist Magda is synonymous with Rómulo Gallegos ' "Doña Barbara". However, he placed less emphasis on the external symbolic power than on the enhancement of a development novel . In the inner monologue of the indomitable femininity (Magda) and its antagonists (Fernando), however, he also indicates topics that later authors have dealt with; Exploitation of the natives, economic exploitation of the land by foreign companies, autocratic reign of Manuel José Estrada Cabreras u. a.

Works (selection)

stories
  • The tierra de las Nahujacas . Guatemala 1933.
  • Los lares apagados . New edition Artemis-Dinter, Guatemala 1994, ISBN 84-89452-40-7 (Ayer y hoy; 3).
Essays
  • El autocrata. Ensayo politico-social . Editorial Pineda Ibarra, Guatemala 1967.
  • Bocetos articulos . 1960.
Poetry
  • Las dávivas simple . New edition Editoria Cultura, Guatemala 2003.
Novels
  • Paw and swing arm. A Creole novel ("La gringa"). Payne publishing house, Leipzig 1940.
  • El sotar de los Gonzagas . Guatemala 1924.
Editorships

literature

  • Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 492-493.
  • Jorge L. Reyes Monroy: Corona fúnebre a la memoria del gran poeta y ecritor don Carlos Wyld Ospina. Recopilación hasta donde fue posible de lo publicado por la prensa hasta 1963 . Editorial Pineda Ibarra, Guatemala 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogia de la Familia de Ospina ( Memento of September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Carlos Wyld Ospina ( Memento of February 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Marta Elena Casaús Arzú: Las redes teosóficas de mujeres en Guatemala: la Sociedad Gabriela Mistral, 1920-1940 (Spanish) in Revista Complutense de Historia de América , 2001, p. 222.
personal data
SURNAME Wyld Ospina, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guatemalan writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Antigua Guatemala
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1956
Place of death Quetzaltenango