Max Jara

Maximiliano Troncoso Jara ( born August 21, 1886 in Yerbas Buenas; † July 6, 1965 in Santiago de Chile), better known as Max Jara was a Chilean poet.

Life

Early on, Jara was interested in the literature. At thirteen, he published his first poems in the magazine El Deber in Piduco. In 1901 he moved to Santiago de Chile, where he graduated the school and a medical degree at the Universidad de Chile began. After three years, he broke from the literature for the sake of studying and working as an administrative employee of the university, where he worked his way up to the deputy head. He took over tasks in mathematical and technical faculty and in the Chilean State Railways. In parallel, he wrote as an editor for the newspaper El Mercurio and El Diario Ilustrado.

Work

Jara published three books. The first Juventud, appeared in 1909. It was a volume of poetry was inspired by the style of Pedro Antonio González '. Raúl Silva Castro praised the beauty of the verses that, harmonious and elegant are full of feeling, and in which the melancholic soul of the author, together with their hopes and fears come to expression. Jara's second book, POESIAS, came out in 1914, a third, Asonantes, 1922. Spite of the limited scope of his poetic work whose quality has been recognized by the national criticism of Chile to a great extent. For his work in 1916 found a place in the anthology Selva lírica and 1956 awarded him a jury that included Pablo Neruda and Eduardo Barrios, the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile.