José Emilio Pacheco

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José Emilio Pacheco (2009)

José Emilio Pacheco (born June 30, 1939 in Mexico City , † January 26, 2014 there ) was a Mexican writer .

Life

Pacheco was already writing for magazines and newspapers when he was in school. At the request of his father, a lawyer and notary, he began to study law, but soon switched to philology because he found the prospect of being on the wrong side socially and having to use the law against the poor disturbing. As a 19-year-old student, he began his tireless work as a critic, editor and columnist of Mexican cultural and literary journals and was responsible for the cultural and literary sections of well-known Mexican newspapers. He then taught literature and poetry at universities in Canada, Great Britain and the USA. Pacheco returned to Mexico City, but held summer courses at the University of Maryland.

In 2009 Pacheco received the Cervantes Prize , the highest literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world. The jury ruled that he was an “extraordinary poet of everyday life” who had the ability to “create his own world”. Pacheco died on January 26, 2014 at the age of 74 from the consequences of a fall he had suffered the day before.

Work characteristics

José Emilio Pacheco devoted himself to the four literary areas of poetry, essay writing, translation and prose, with the poem in the first and central position.

The entire work is characterized by formal perfection, precise poetic language and inner, emotional involvement. Further literary characteristics are: the passion of the metaphors, their repetition, their concentration on a few lines, the pleasure in unexpected intellectual relationships, playing with analogies and singing about the landscape.

The first work Los elementos de la noche ( The elements of the night ) appeared in Mexico in 1963. Ten more volumes of poetry followed.

Works (selection)

  • Return to Sisyphus. (Lyric)
  • Fight in the desert. (Stories)
  • Death in the distance. (Novel)
  • Sooner or later - Tarde o Temprano. Selection of works, bilingual: Spanish - German. Poems. Poemas 1964-2000. Cover design by Juana Burghardt. From the Mexican Spanish by Juana and Tobias Burghardt. With a photo essay by Enrique Hernández-D'Jesús. With an afterword by Tobias Burghardt. Edition Delta , Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-927648-39-5 .

Awards

  • 2003 Premio Octavio Paz 2003
  • 2009 Queen Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry
  • 2009 Cervantes Prize

Web links

Commons : José Emilio Pacheco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b José Emilio Pacheco. 9th international literature festival berlin, archived from the original on January 15, 2010 ; accessed on March 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Pacheco receives the Cervantes Prize. In: The time. Zeit Online, pp. 1, 2 , accessed on December 1, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Mexican author José Emilio Pacheco died. In: Focus from January 27, 2014 (accessed January 27, 2014).
  4. ^ Carlos Monsiváis: El poder de síntesis. El País, accessed December 1, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Pacheco, José Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2014
Place of death Mexico city