Max Henríquez Ureña

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Max Henriquez Ureña

Max Henríquez Ureña (born November 16, 1885 in Santo Domingo , † January 23, 1968 ibid) was an important Dominican writer , scholar and diplomat .

Life

Max Henríquez Ureña was born into a family of intellectuals. His mother was Salomé Ureña , an eminent Dominican poet and feminist, and his grandfather Nícolás Ureña de Mendoza was a politician.

After completing his school education, his father Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal sent him to study in New York. From there he went to Cuba, where he stayed for several years and received his doctorate. He was considered an excellent speaker and gave numerous lectures. Like his brother Pedro Henríquez Ureña , he traveled across the United States of America and Latin America and maintained contact with a large number of like-minded intellectuals. He kept a diary of his stays in Mexico (1907), Cuba (1920), South America (1921) and Europe (1921) (first published in 2012 as part of his work edition as the 19th volume Diarios de viaje ). He had a wide range of interests, ranging from literature and linguistics to musicology and political science. Max Henríquez Ureña died on January 23, 1968 in Santo Domingo.

Henríques Ureña was a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .

Works

Complete edition:

  • Obra y apuntes . 28 volumes. Ediciones de la Secretaría de Estado de Cultura, Santo Domingo 2008–2012, ISBN 978-9945-427-34-9 .

Individual editions published during his lifetime:

  • Ánforas, Imprenta de la Viuda de Montero . 1914.
  • La combinación diplomática . 1916.
  • Rodó y Rubén Darío . 1918.
  • El ocaso del dogmatismo literario . 1919.
  • Los Estados Unidos y la República Dominicana . 1919.
  • Tablas cronológicas de la literatura cubana . Ediciones Archipiélago, 1929.
  • Fosforescencias . Ediciones Archipiélago, 1930.
  • El retorno de los galeones (bocetos hispánicos) . Editoral Renacimiento, 1930.
  • Panorama de la República Dominicana . 1935.
  • Les influences Francaises sur la poésie Hipano-Americaine . Institut de Etudes Americaines, 1938.
  • El Continente de la Esperanza . 1939.
  • La independencia efímera, Fernand Sorlot . 1938.
  • La conspiración de los Alcarrizos . Sociedad Intrustrial de Tipografía, 1941.
  • Poetas cubanos de expresión francesa . Revista Iberoamericana, 1941.
  • El Arzobispo Valera . Fundacao Romao de Mattos Duarte, 1944.
  • Panorama histórico de la literatura dominicana . Companhia Brasileira de Artes Gráficas, Rio de Janeiro 1945.
  • Cuentos insulares: cuadros de la vida cubana . Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires 1947.
  • Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Antología . Librería Dominicana, Ciudad Trujillo 1950.
  • The ideal de los trinitarios . Edisol, 1951.
  • Episodios dominicanos . (1951).
  • Garra de luz . Organización Nacional de Bibliotecas Ambulantes y Populares, 1958.
  • El retorno de los galeones. Breve historia del modernismo . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Ciudad México 1960.
  • De Rimbaud a Pasternak y Quasimodo. Ensayos sobre las literaturas contemporáneas . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Tezontle, Ciudad México 1960.
  • Panorama histórico de la literatura cubana . Ediciones Mirador, La Habana 1963.
  • Breve historia del modernismo . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Ciudad México 1964.

Published posthumously:

  • Episodios dominicanos. Sociedad Dominicana de Bibliófilos, 1981. (Short stories).
  • Mi padre. Perfil Biográfico de Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal . Feria del Libro, Santo Domingo 1988.
  • Mi padre. Perfil Biográfico de Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal . Edición corregida y aumentada. Ediciones Cielonaranja, Santo Domingo 2011.

literature

  • Odalís G. Pérez: Max Henríquez Ureña. Las rutas de una vida intelectual. Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación, 2011, ISBN 978-9945-074-32-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by the academy ( memento of March 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 8, 2017 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Henríquez Ureña, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican writer, diplomat and intellectual
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Santo Domingo
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1968
Place of death Santo Domingo