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    Azul…

    By Rubén Darío

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    No hace falta apenas justificar la presencia de un texto como "Azul…" en una colección de clásicos hispánicos. La historiografía literaria tradicional lo consideró durante mucho tiempo el libro inaugural del modernismo, apoyándose en la lectura hiperbólicamente estratégica que de él hizo su autor, quien incluso llegó a llamarlo "mi primer libro", y lo vio más de una vez como el inicio de su futura revolución en el pensar y el escribir. Todos los mitos de la fundación y de la novedad radical cayeron sobre "Azul…", aquel pequeño libro que, en efecto, obedecía al "galicismo mental" detectado por Juan Valera, pero que solo quería ser, como reconoce Darío, una producción de arte puro. O lo que es lo mismo, un intento, logrado desde luego, de colorear el lenguaje y la vida cotidiana a partir de la construcción de un ámbito estético plenamente autónomo donde se fundiesen la música, la pintura, e incluso la escultura, con la escritura en prosa y en verso. En este "cofre tan artístico", como lo denominó Eduardo de la Barra, su primer prologuista, el joven Rubén Darío comenzó a mostrar una originalidad extraña al hacer suyas las poéticas de románticos, parnasianos, decadentes y simbolistas. Pero la moral estética a la que obedece "Azul…", ya desde el mismo título, tiene como reverso un posicionamiento crítico y hasta social: el arte no habla "en burgués", como leemos en el primer cuento del libro. El Darío que viaja a Chile, y que se encuentra con el no lugar del artista bajo el esplendor de un capitalismo dependiente, trata de resacralizar el arte, de devolverle el aura que ha perdido al son de la "canción del oro", reverenciado ya por todos, incluso por el poeta, aunque no como valor de cambio sino como valor de uso estético. Ninguna otra salida, entonces, que no fuera cubrirse los ojos con el sutil velo azul de la reina Mab.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherClásicos Hispánicos
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9783945282250
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    Rubén Darío

    Rubén Darío (1867-1916) was a Nicaraguan poet. Following his parents’ separation, he was raised in the city of León by Félix and Bernarda Ramirez, his maternal aunt and uncle. In 1879, after years of hardship following the death of Félix, Darío was sent to a Jesuit school, where he began writing poetry. He found publication in El Termómetro and El Ensayo, a popular daily and a local literary magazine, and was recognized as a promising young writer. Darío soon gained a reputation for his liberal politics and was denied an opportunity to study in Europe due to his opposition of the Catholic Church. In 1882, he travelled to El Salvador, where he studied French poetry with Francisco Gavidia and sharpened his sense of traditional poetic forms. Back in Nicaragua, he suffered from financial hardship and poor health while attempting to broaden his style through experimentation with new poetic forms. In 1886, he traveled to Chile, where he published his masterpiece Azul… (1888), a groundbreaking blend of poetry and prose that helped define and distinguish Hispanic Modernism. The success of Azul… enabled Darío to find work as a correspondent for La Nación, a popular periodical based in Buenos Aires. He travelled widely throughout his career, working as a journalist and ambassador in Argentina, France, and Spain. Darío continued to write and publish poetry, courting controversy with a series of poems written on Theodore Roosevelt and the United States which displayed his inconsistent political position on the impact of American imperialism on Latin America. Towards the end of his life, suffering from advanced alcoholism, Darío returned to his native city of León, where he was buried after a lengthy funeral at the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary.

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