Emir Rodríguez Monegal

Emir Rodríguez Monegal ( born July 28, 1921 in Melo, † November 14, 1985 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an Uruguayan writer, linguist, and Lusitanist Hispanist, who taught in the United States.

Life and work

Rodríguez Monegal was as a writer for the Generación del 45 He was from 1945 feuilleton editor of the weekly Marcha, from 1949, besides the editor of other literary magazines. He received his Ph.D. in 1956 in Montevideo with the work of Andrés Bello y el Romanticismo Hispanoamericano ( published ud T. El otro Andrés Bello. A study of Bello 's literary life and work, Caracas 1969).

From 1957 to 1960 he held his researches in England. In the 60 years he held various visiting professorships and issued in Paris in 1966, the magazine Mundo Nuevo out. From 1969 until his death Rodríguez Monegal was a professor of Latin American contemporary literature at Yale University ( 1973-1976 Chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese).

Rodríguez Monegal was a friend of Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda.

Other works

• José Enrique Rodó en el Novecientos, Montevideo 1950
• José Lins do Rego y algunos problemas de la novela brasileña, Montevideo1952
• El juicio de los parricidas. La nueva generación argentina y sus maestros, Buenos Aires 1956
• Las de Horacio Quiroga raíces, Montevideo 1961
• ( Homero Alsina Thevenet with ) Ingmar Bergman. Un dramaturgo cinematográfico, Montevideo 1964
• El Viajero Inmóvil. Introducción a Pablo Neruda, Buenos Aires 1966, Caracas 1976 ( French: . Neruda Le Voyageur Inmobile, Paris 1973)
• Literatura del medio siglo uruguaya, Montevideo 1966
• Genio y figura de Horacio Quiroga, Buenos Aires 1967
• El desterrado. Vida y obra de Horacio Quiroga, Buenos Aires 1968
• Vínculo de sangre, Montevideo 1968
• El arte de narrar, Caracas 1968, 1977
• Borgès par lui - même, Paris, 1970 ( in Spanish: por él mismo Borges, Caracas 1979, Barcelona 1984)
• Tres Testigos españoles de la guerra civil, Caracas 1970 ( Ramón J. Sender, Arturo Barea and Max Aub )
• El Boom de la novela latino americana, Caracas 1972
• Borges. Hacia una de la lectura poética, Barcelona 1976 ( Portuguese: Borges Uma poética leitura there, São Paulo 1980)
• Jorge Luis Borges. A literary Biography, New York 1978 ( Italian Milan 1982, Paris 1983 French, Spanish Mexico, 1985)
• Mário de Andrade / Borges. To diálogo de textos, São Paulo 1980
• (Ed.) The New World. Chronicles of Latin America by Columbus to the wars of independence, Frankfurt am Main 1982, 1985, 1992