Jorge Aguilar Mora (9 January 1946 – 5 January 2024) was a Mexican essayist, novelist, poet, professor and literary critic.
Jorge Aguilar Mora | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 January 1946 Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Died | 5 January 2024 (aged 77) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Essayist, novelist, poet, professor, literary critic |
| Language | Spanish |
| Notable awards | Xavier Villaurrutia Award (2015) |
Biography
editAguilar Mora studied Hispanic language and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received his doctorate from El Colegio de México. He was a professor at both institutions. During the 1968 Movement, he was a representative of El Colegio de México assembly and was arrested. He had to leave the country and settled in Paris with a scholarship, where he established a relationship with Roland Barthes, who became his teacher. Aguilar Mora spread Barthes' ideas and put him in contact with other Mexican intellectuals, whom he influenced.[1]
Among Aguilar Mora's essays, the one he dedicated to Octavio Paz in 1978, titled La divina pareja: Historia y mito en Octavio Paz, was especially important. Its critical nature gave a twist to the academic literature that had been written until then about Paz.[2] He collaborated in the Cancionero folklorico de México, a compilation of popular Mexican lyrics of the 20th century, directed by philologist Margit Frenk and published between 1975 and 1985 by El Colegio de México.[3] Aguilar Mora won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 2015.[4]
Among his students was Gabriela Brimmer, whom Aguilar Mora encouraged to write poetry.[5]
Death
editAguilar Mora died in Bethesda, Maryland, on 5 January 2024, at the age of 77.[4][6]
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- Cadáver lleno de mundo
- Si muero lejos de ti
- Los secretos de la aurora
Poems
edit- US Mail Special Delivery
- No hay otro cuerpo
- Esta tierra sin razón y poderosa
- Stabat Mater
Essays
edit- La divina pareja: Historia y mito en Octavio Paz
- Una muerte sencilla, justa, eterna: Cultura y guerra durante la Revolución Mexicana
- Un día en la vida del general Obregón
- Sueños de la razón, 1799 y 1800. Umbrales del siglo XIX[7]
References
edit- ^ Aguilar, Marcos Daniel. "La crítica es un ejercicio de la verdad: Evodio Escalante" (in Spanish). Milenio. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ David Medina Portillo (November 2017). Malva Flores (ed.). "Dossier México Hoy". Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. p. 53. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ "Cancionero folklórico de México". Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
- ^ a b Ángel Vargas (5 January 2024). "Falleció el escritor y poeta Jorge Aguilar Mora". La Jornada. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Martínez-Salanova Sánchez, Enrique. "Gaby, una historia verdadera". Educomunicación. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ Jipsy Herrera (5 January 2024). "Fallece el escritor Jorge Aguilar Mora a los 77 años". e-consulta.com. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ "Enciclopedia de la literatura en México". Retrieved 6 January 2024.