Fernando del Paso

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Fernando del Paso Morante (2004).

Fernando del Paso Morante (born April 1, 1935 in Mexico City , † November 14, 2018 in Guadalajara ) was a Mexican writer and poet .

Life

Fernando del Paso Morante studied economics for two years at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). For 14 years he lived in London , where he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and in France , where he worked for Radio France Internationale . From 1989 to 1992 he was also the Mexican Consul General in Paris . He was also known as a painter.

In 1992, del Paso returned to Mexico and took over the management of the Biblioteca Iberoamericana "Octavio Paz" of the Universidad de Guadalajara . Since 1996 he has been a member of the Colegio Nacional de México .

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Fernando des Paso was a representative of the historical novel, interspersed with fantastic elements, in which he reflected the emergence of Mexican identity and the influence of colonialism. But he also dealt with current topics in partly satirical form. He drew inspiration from Aztec mythology, the baroque picaresque novel, and Laurence Sterne and James Joyce . Best known was his novel Noticias del Imperio (1987) about the second Mexican empire under Maximilian I and Empress Carlota , who in fact ran the business for her dreamy husband. The book deals with historical events from the retrospective point of view of Carlota and numerous other actors. The book has been published twenty times in ten years. In 2007, Nexos magazine voted it the best Mexican book in thirty years. It had a decisive effect on other authors such as the Cubans Leonardo Padura and Fernando Velázquez Medina .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

prose

  • Palinuro of Mexico. Roman ("Palinuro de México"). Translated by Susanne Lange . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-627-10215-0 .
  • José Trigo. Novela . New edition Bibliotex, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-8130-298-8 .
  • News from the Empire. Roman ("Noticias del Imperio"). Translated from the Spanish by Lutz Kliche. Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1996, ISBN 3-87294-712-5 .
  • Linda 67th novel ("Linda 67th Historia de un crimen"). Knaur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-426-61614-9 .

Poetry

  • Sonetos del amor y de lo diario . Editorial Vuelta, Ciudad de México 1997, ISBN 968-7656-09-3 .
  • PoeMar ( Letras Mexicanas series ). Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), Mexico City 2004, ISBN 968-16-7330-1 .

Non-fiction

  • La cocina mexicana de Socorro y Fernando del Paso . Editorial Diana, Ciudad de México 2003, ISBN 968-133749-2 .

literature

Essays

  • Vittoria Borsò: Historias híbridas, espacios comunes y miradas entrecruzadas. El reto de la historiografía en Hispanoamérica ( Alfonso Reyes , Jorge Luis Borges , Fernando del Paso) . In: Walter Bruno Berg, Vittoria Borsó (ed.): Unidad y pluralidad de la cultura latinoamericana. Géneros, identidades y medios . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-86527-249-5 , pp. 59-84.
  • Kristine Ibsen: Dissecting the exquisite cadaver. On collections and colonialism in Fernando del Paso's “Noticias del Imperio” . In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies , Vol. 80 (2003), Issue 6, pp. 715-728.
  • Ingeborg Nickel: "Noticias del Imperio" de Fernando del Paso: una emperatriz en el polo de poder del Segundo Imperio. Invenciones e intervenciones . In: Susanne Igler, Roland Spiller (eds.): Más nuevas del imperio. Estudios interdisciplinarios acerca de Carlota de Méjico (= Latin American Studies, vol. 45). Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 84-8489-023-6 , pp. 157-170.
  • Azucena Rodríguez Torres: El sistema narrativo-indicial en "José Trigo" de Fernando del Paso . In: Tema y variaciones de literatura , Vol. 20 (2003), pp. 343-369.
  • Michael Rössner: De la búsqueda de la propia identidad a la desconstrucción de la "historia europea". Algunos aspectos del desarrollo de la novela histórica en América Latina entre "Amalia" (1855) and "Noticias del Imperio" (1987). In: Karl Kohut (ed.): La invención del pasado. The novela histórica en el marco de la posmodernidad . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-89354-917-X , pp. 167-176.
  • Reina Roffé: Entrevista a Fernando del Paso . In: Cuadernos hispanoamericanos , 2003, issue 623, pp. 111-120.

Books

  • Carmen Álvarez Lobato: La voz poética de Fernando del Paso. "José Trigo" desde la oralidad . Universidad Autónoma, Ciudad de México 2009, ISBN 978-6-07-462032-0 .
  • Susanne Lange: The reflected reality. German and Latin American contemporary literature in comparison using the example of the works of Günter Grass and Fernando del Paso . Lang publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-631-44823-6 (also dissertation, University of Munich 1992).
  • Inés Saénz: Hacia la novela total. Fernando del Paso . Editorial Pliegos, Madrid 1994, ISBN 84-88435-14-2 (Pliego de ensayo; 98).
  • Alejandro Toledo Manrique: El imperio de las voces. Fernando del Paso ante la crítica . Editorial Era, Ciudad de México 1997, ISBN 968-411-392-7 .
  • Sebastian Thies: "La verdadera historia es el olvido". Alterity and Poetology of Memoria in Contemporary Mexican Historical Narrative Literature . edition tranvía, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-925867-85-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Comunidad cultural lamenta muerte de Fernando del Paso. eluniversal.com.mx, November 14, 2018 (Spanish).;
  2. Fernando del Paso receives Cervantes Literature Prize. zeit.de, November 12, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2015 .