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Dario Ruben
Stories and Poems/Cuentos y Poesias: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)
DescriptionNicaraguan 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.
Azul (Spanish Edition)
DescriptionRubén Darío (1867-1916) fue un poeta, periodista y diplomático nicaragüense. Considerado el iniciador y máximo representante del Modernismo Hispano, su libro Azul (1888) es el punto de partida de este movimiento. Azul es una antología de poemas y relatos en prosa que Darío publicó en la prensa chilena entre Diciembre de 1886 y Junio de 1888. Estos poemas y relatos presentan temas diversos entre los que encontramos el amor como un elemento armónico con la naturaleza y el cosmos. Esta obra es una joya de la li-teratura por el poeta hispano más influyente del siglo XX. Hoy en día, Rubén Darío es conocido como el príncipe de las letras castellanas.
Songs of Life and Hope/Cantos de vida y esperanza
DescriptionRenowned 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.
Azul (Diferencias) (Spanish Edition)
DescriptionLa 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 tÃtulo hasta la estructura de la obra, compuesta por cuentos y poemas, hacen de este volumen la obra más representativa del periodo modernista. Los crÃticos del época aseguraban que, con este poemario, Rubén DarÃo habÃa dado un nuevo sentido del ritmo y de la sonoridad a la lengua española.
Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
DescriptionBorn 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.Dario Ruben News![]()
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