José Enrique Rodó

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José Enrique Rodó
José Enrique Rodó monument in Parque Rodó .

José Enrique Rodó Piñeyro (born July 15, 1871 in Montevideo , † May 1, 1917 in Palermo , Italy ) was a Uruguayan essayist .

Life

José Enrique Rodó was born in 1871 into a middle-class family. He started writing early on. From 1895 he published poems and articles in newspapers. Although he never completed a university degree, the well-known author was appointed professor of literature at the Universidad de Montevideo (today: Universidad de la República ) in 1898 . In 1900 he published his major work, Ariel . Rodó joined the liberal Partido Colorado party and was one of its representatives as a city councilor in Montevideo from 1902 to 1905 and 1908 to 1912 . In his later years he made many trips to Europe. He died in a Sicilian hotel in 1917.

plant

In his essay Ariel, Rodó warns in a lyrical way of the rising utilitarianism , which is increasing in importance with the rise of the United States of America after the end of the Spanish-American War . It shows the difference between Latin America and Anglo America . His essay received a great response in Hispanic societies in the early 20th century; it is "probably the most discussed essay" in the history of Latin America.

Sources Rodós were Shakespeare's The Tempest , from which he took the characters Prospero, Ariel and Caliban, and the philosophical drama Caliban by Ernest Renan . For Rodó, Caliban embodied the materialistic and utilitarian spirit that he implicitly ascribed to modern civilization and explicitly to the USA, which is why some critics have accused him of anti-Americanism and a Manichaean worldview. Ariel, however, the altruist and esthete, was portrayed as a model for Latin America.

literature

  • José Enrique Rodó: Ariel . Edited by Ottmar Ette . Dieterich'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Mainz 1994, ISBN 978-3-87162-032-4 .
  • Ottmar Ette, Titus Heydenreich (ed.): José Enrique Rodó y su tiempo. Cien años de "Ariel". 12 ° Coloquio interdisciplinario de la Sección Latinoamérica del Instituto Central para Estudios Regionales de la Universidad de Erlangen-Nürnberg . Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-89354-742-8 .
  • Antonio Egea López: La idea de Hispanoamérica como unidad en José Enrique Rodó . In: Jesús Raúl Navarro García (ed.): Literatura y pensamiento en América Latina . Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla 1999, ISBN 84-00-07858-6 , pp. 43-54.
  • Titus Heydenreich: Latin America as Magna Patria in the work of José Enrique Rodó. Myths, models, realities . In: Christian Wentzlaff-Eggebert (Hrsg.): Reality and Myth in Latin American Literature . Böhlau, Cologne 1989, pp. 243-263.
  • Luis Jiménez Moreno: La personalidad cultural colectiva en la obra de José Enrique Rodó . In: Antonio Heredia Soriano (ed.): Mundo hispánico-Nuevo mundo. Visión filosófica . Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 1995, ISBN 84-7481-795-1 , pp. 277-290.
  • Arnoldo Mora: El arielismo. De Rodó a García Monge . San José, Costa Rica (EUNED, Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia) 2008, ISBN 978-9968-31-561-6 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Michi Strausfeld : What remains of the longing. Latin America and Europe have long shared a utopian dream . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 24, 2015, pp. 53–54, quotation p. 53.

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personal data
SURNAME Rodó, José Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodó Piñeyro, José Enrique (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1917
Place of death Palermo , Italy