Rafael Delgado (writer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rafael Delgado, 1902

Ángel de Jesús Rafael Delgado (born August 20, 1853 in Córdoba , Veracruz , † May 20, 1914 in Orizaba , Veracruz) was a Mexican writer and poet . He was appointed to the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua ( Spanish for Mexican Language Academy ) in 1896 and was strongly influenced by Alphonse Daudet .

Life

Rafael Delgado was born on August 20, 1853 to Pedro Pablo Delgado and María de Jesús Sainz Herosa, both of whom came from respected and wealthy families in the Mexican city of Córdoba. His paternal grandfather was mayor of Cordoba when the Treaty of Cordoba was signed.

Little Rafael was less than two months old when his family moved to Orizaba, where the writer grew up and spent most of his life. In January 1865 the boy was sent to Mexico City , where he attended the Colegio de Infantes de la Colegiata de Guadalupe , which was renowned at the time . When his family ran into financial difficulties, however, the boy had to return to Orizaba, where he joined the reopened Colegio Nacional de Orizaba in May 1868 .

In the 1880s Delgado worked in the literary department of the Sociedad Sánchez Oropeza, founded in Orizaba in 1881 .

As an adult, Delgado lived again for a while in Mexico City and in Mexico's second largest city Guadalajara , where he worked in the Ministry of Education in Jalisco at the request of his friend, his writer José López Portillo y Rojas . However, his arthritis illness brought him back to his longtime hometown of Orizaba, where he died in 1914 at the age of 60.

reception

His first literary work Mi vida en soledad (Spanish for my life in solitude ) was published in 1879.

His first novel La Calandria was published in 1889 in the Revista Nacional de Letras y Ciencias (Spanish for National Journal of Letters and Sciences ) and was published in 1891 as a book. It is considered a jewel of modern Mexican literature . The novel is about a young woman who lost her mother early and was raised by a woman named Pancha.

His second novel Angelina also appeared in a newspaper in 1894 and was published as a book in 1895. The novel tells the unfulfilled love story of a young man named Rodolfo, who acts as the first-person narrator. After studying in Mexico City, he returns to his hometown and meets Angelina, with whom he falls in love. But his love is in vain because she takes the religious vows and chooses to live in the monastery . The work shows parallels to the successful novel María by the Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs and seems to be influenced by this.

Works (selection)

  • Mi vida en soledad . 1879.
  • La Calandria . 1891.
  • Angelina . 1895.
  • Las parientes ricos . 1901.
  • Historia vulgar . 1904.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rafael Delgado at textos.info (Spanish; accessed on February 22, 2020)
  2. ↑ Biblioteca de Autores Mexicanos: Obras de Don Rafael Delgado, Tomo I. Cuentos Y Notas, 1902, p. XV
  3. ↑ Biblioteca de Autores Mexicanos: Obras de Don Rafael Delgado, Tomo I. Cuentos Y Notas, 1902, p. XIX
  4. ↑ a b Juan Ortiz: Rafael Delgado: biografía, estilo, obras (Spanish; accessed on February 22, 2020)
  5. ↑ Biblioteca de Autores Mexicanos: Obras de Don Rafael Delgado, Tomo I. Cuentos Y Notas, 1902, p. XXI
personal data
SURNAME Delgado, Rafael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delgado, Ángel de Jesús Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba , Veracruz
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1914
Place of death Orizaba , Veracruz