Emir Rodríguez Monegal

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Emir Rodríguez Monegal, (standing, second from right)

Emir Rodríguez Monegal (born July 28, 1921 in Melo , † November 14, 1985 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was a Uruguayan writer, Romanist , Lusitanist and Hispanist who taught in the United States.

Life

Rodríguez Monegal was a writer in the Generación del 45 . From 1945 he was the feature editor of the weekly Marcha , and from 1949 he was also the editor of other literary magazines. He received his doctorate in 1956 in Montevideo with the work Andrés Bello y el Romanticismo hispanoamericano (published under the title El otro Andrés Bello. A study of Bello's literary life and work , Caracas 1969).

From 1957 to 1960 he was doing research in England. In the 1960s he held various visiting professorships and from 1966 published the magazine Mundo Nuevo in Paris . From 1969 until his death, Rodríguez Monegal was Professor of Contemporary Latin American Literature at Yale University (from 1973 to 1976 Chairman of the Department for Spanish and Portuguese).

Rodríguez Monegal was friends with Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda .

Works

  • José Enrique Rodó en el Novecientos, Montevideo 1950
  • José Lins do Rego y algunos problemas de la novela brasileña, Montevideo 1952
  • El juicio de los parricidas. La nueva generación argentina y sus maestros, Buenos Aires 1956
  • Las raíces de Horacio Quiroga, Montevideo 1961
  • (with Homero Alsina Thevenet ) Ingmar Bergman. Un dramaturgo cinematográfico, Montevideo 1964
  • El Viajero Inmóvil. Introducción a Pablo Neruda, Buenos Aires 1966, Caracas 1976 (French: Neruda. Le Voyageur Inmobile, Paris 1973)
  • Literatura uruguaya del medio siglo, Montevideo 1966
  • Genio y figura de Horacio Quiroga, Buenos Aires 1967
  • El desterrado. Vida y obra de Horacio Quiroga, Buenos Aires 1968
  • Vínculo de sangre, Montevideo 1968
  • El arte de narrar, Caracas 1968, 1977
  • Borgès par lui-même, Paris 1970 (Spanish: Borges por él mismo, Caracas 1979; Barcelona 1984)
  • Tres testigos españoles de la guerra civil, Caracas 1970 (Ramón J. Sender, Arturo Barea and Max Aub)
  • El Boom de la novela latinoamericana, Caracas 1972
  • Borges. Hacia una poética de la lectura, Barcelona 1976 (Portuguese: Borges Uma poética da leitura, São Paulo 1980)
  • Jorge Luis Borges. A literary Biography, New York 1978 (Italian Milan 1982, French Paris 1983, Spanish Mexico 1985)
  • Mário de Andrade / Borges. Um diálogo de textos, São Paulo 1980
  • (Ed.) The New World. Chronicles of Latin America from Columbus to the Wars of Independence, Frankfurt a. M. 1982, 1985, 1992

literature

  • Homenaje a Emir Rodríguez Monegal , Montevideo 1987
  • Pablo Rocca, Ángel Rama, Emir Rodríguez Monegal y el Brasil. Dos caras de un proyecto latinoamericano , Montevideo 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Rodríguez Monegal, Emir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan writer, Romanist, Lusitanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Melo
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1985
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut