Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ( born Juana de Asbaje y Ramírez; * November 12, 1651 in San Miguel Nepantla in Mexico, † April 17, 1695 in Mexico City) was a Mexican nun and poet.
Life
Juana was probably an illegitimate child. Even with three years she learned to read and studied in the following works of philosophy, astronomy and medicine.
At 16, the talented girl was discovered by the Vice- Queen of New Spain, which she brought to her court. As a result, Juana wrote numerous commissioned works for the court and the church. Your graceful verses because it is now one of the most important Latin-American poets of the 17th century.
Juana had neither family nor money, nor did she want to get married. After a visionary dream, she joined the convent and, after an attempt at the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of the Hieronymitinnen who had a far less strict way of life and in the convent she was able to devote their studies. Their main seal The dream she wrote in 1685 in the monastery. The life there was very pleasant for them, but they had a spacious apartment, library and laboratories for experiments. Still standing under the protection of the Vice- Queen, she was allowed to receive guests as desired. She continued to write " secular " poems of great passion, of which she devoted most of the Viceroy.
Your superiors exhorted repeatedly to deal only with religious literature. In letters to her confessor and to the Bishop of Puebla she campaigned for women's right to knowledge and education. 1694, however, she gave in to the pressure and signed a confession of sin and a vow from now on only to live for God. When in 1695 the plague broke out, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz lit during nursing and soon died from the plague.
Work
The " Obras Completas " Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz appeared (still without the discovered only later by Aureliano Tapia Méndez letter to her confessor ) in Porrúa In stock. From Nueva Hélades, ediciones digital, Rosario, Prov. Santa Fe, Argentina, they are available on CD -ROM including the aforementioned letter (and other newly discovered sources).
In German the following books are available:
- First dream. ( Poetry, edited by Alberto Pérez- Amador Adam, ISBN 3-8015-0296-1 )
- Reply to Sister Filothea de la Cruz (ISBN 3-8015-0244-9 )
- First dream (ISBN 3-458-16326-3 )
- It hear me thine eye. ( Poetry, theater, prose ) translated by E. Dorer. W. Goldbaum, K. Schüller, F. Vogelgsang, K. Vossler. Edited by Alberto Pérez- Amador Adam, Frankfurt: Verlag Neue Kritik 1996 ISBN 3-8015-0296-1 )
- First dream ( Spanish - German ) Edited and translated by Alberto Pérez- Amador Adam and Stephan Nowotnick. Frankfurt: Verlag Neue Kritik 1992 ISBN 3-8015-0264-3
Alberto Pérez- Amador Adam: El precipicio de faeton. Nueva edición, esudio filológico y Primero Sueño de comento de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Frankfurt, Madrid: Vervuert 1996
Alberto Pérez- Amador Adam: La estrella ascendente. Bibliografía de los estudios dedicados a Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz en el siglo XX. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert 2007
Filming
The Argentine María Luisa Bemberg filmed the novel Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - or: The Pitfalls of Faith ( Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las Trampas de la fé ) by Octavio Paz Assumpta Serna played the lead role in the 1990 under the title I, the most unworthy of all ( Yo, la peor de todas ) released movie.