Jorge Cuesta

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Jorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit (born September 23, 1903 in Córdoba , † August 13, 1942 in Tlalpan ) was a Mexican chemist , writer and editor .

biography

Cuesta completed school in his hometown and then studied in Mexico City at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). In 1924 he published his first short story in a magazine. After completing his studies in 1925, he temporarily returned to his hometown for a short time.

In 1927 he met his future wife Guadalupe Marín in Mexico City , who was then still married to the painter Diego Rivera . In 1928 he went to Europe and made the acquaintance of Octavio G. Barreda , Carlos Luquín , André Breton , Carlos Pellicer , Samuel Ramos and Agustín Lazo .

In 1930 he returned to Mexico, married Guadalupe Marín and founded the Los Contemporáneos group there . Cuesta, who worked for various magazines, founded the magazine Examen himself in 1932 .

Cuesta was admitted to the sanatorium of Tlalpan because of an illness, where he ultimately took his own life. His body was buried in the Panteón Civil de Dolores in Mexico City.

Well-known works / publications

  • "Canto a un Dios Mineral"
  • "A Pesar del Oscuro Silencio"
  • "La Calle del Amor"
  • "Poeta, finds tu Campana"
  • "El plan contra Calles" (1934)
  • "Poesía de Jorge Cuesta" (1942)
  • "Crítica de la reforma del Artículo Tercero" (1943)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Poetas Poemas - Jorge Cuesta (Spanish).
  2. ^ Jorge Cuesta in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 7, 2015.