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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( D ) : Dario, Ruben
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Nicaraguan poet and essayist Darío (the pen name of Félix Rubén García Sarmiento) is considered the high priest of the modernismo school of literature. This volume contains a rich selection of his best poems and stories from Azul (Blue), Prosas profanas (Worldly Hymns), and others. Accurate English translations appear on the facing pages.
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Book in Spanish
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Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Rubén Darío (1867–1916) has been revered by writers including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. A leading figure in the movement known as modernismo, Darío created the modern Spanish lyric and permanently altered the course of Spanish poetry. Yet while his output has inspired a great deal of critical analysis and a scattering of translations, there has been, until now, no complete English translation of any of his books of poetry. This bilingual edition of Darío’s 1905 masterpiece, Cantos de vida y esperanza, fills a crucial gap in Hispanic and world literature studies. Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda have provided not only an elegant English translation of Darío’s work but also an authoritative version of the original Spanish text.
Written over the course of seven years and in many locales in Latin America and Europe, the poems in Cantos de vida y esperanza reflect both Darío’s anguished sense of modern life and his ecstatic visions of transcendence, freedom, and the transformative power of art. They reveal Darío’s familiarity with Spanish, French, and English literature and the wide range of his concerns—existential, religious, erotic, and socio-political. Derusha and Acereda’s translation renders Darío’s themes with meticulous clarity and captures the structural and acoustic dimensions of the poet’s language in all its rhythmic sonority. Their introduction places this singular poet—arguably the greatest to emerge from Latin America in modern literature—and his best and most widely known work in historical and literary context. An extensive glossary offers additional information, explaining terms related to modernismo, Hispanic history, mythological allusions, and artists and writers prominent at the turn of the last century.
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Born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Darío’s writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world—an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collection presents Darío’s most significant poems in a bilingual format and organized thematically in the way Darío himself envisioned them. The second part is devoted to Darío’s prose, including short stories, fables, profiles, travel writing, reportage, opinion pieces, and letters. A sweeping biographical introduction by distinguished critic Ilan Stavans places Darío in historical and artistic context, not only in Latin America but in world literature.
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The collected stories of the great Nicaruagan poet. Included are introductions by Raimundo Lida and Ernesto Mejia Sanchez.
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La publicación de 'Azul', primer libro de un escritor nicaragüense de veintiún años se convirtió en el hito fundacional de la literatura modernista. Desde el enigmático título hasta la estructura de la obra, compuesta por cuentos y poemas, hacen de este volumen la obra más representativa del periodo modernista. Los críticos del época aseguraban que, con este poemario, Rubén Darío había dado un nuevo sentido del ritmo y de la sonoridad a la lengua española. The publication of 'Azul', the first book by a 21-year-old Nicaraguan writer, became the foundational moment for the modernist tradition in Spanish-language literature. From its enigmatic title to the work's structure, made up of stories and poems, it is the most representative work of the modernist period. Critics of the day were already convinced that with this collection, Dario had given a new sense of meaning and rhythm to the Spanish language.
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Language: Spanish
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Sin una unidad tematica o retorica, Prosas profanas y otros poemas es el libro axial de Dario: el punto de llegada del Dario que tiene su manifestacion en Azul... (a los veintidos anos) y el lanzamiento de una poetica de madurez de quien se ve como ""peregrino palido de un pais distante"" que ""hace treinta anos suena"". En perspectiva, hay que tomar conciencia de que entre el ultimo libro y este hay solo seis o siete anos, lo cual no es mucho, en especial si se tiene en cuenta que Prosas profanas recoge todo lo importante escrito en este periodo.(De la Introduccion de Ignacio M. Zuleta)
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The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes Azul, Cantos de vida y esperanza, and España contemporánea and others.Las obras clásicas de literatura en cada volumen son una representación de los mejores y más famosos escritos de los autores. Una introducción maravillosa a la literatura universal, esta serie hermosamente diseñada pone las obras de los autores mundialmente conocidos al alcance de todos.
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