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In 1907, Delmira Agustini published her first book of poems, El libro blanco (Frágil), which was very well received by the writers and critics of the time. She formed part of the Generation of 1900, along with Julio Herrera y Reissig, Leopoldo Lugones and Rubén Darío, whom she considered her teacher. Silvia Molloy comments on the deliberate infantilism that Agustini used as a protective mask.
Biography
Delmira Agustini born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1886. After publishing her second and third books, critics started addressing her in terms similar to those later used by Emir Rodríguez Monegal: "pithiness in heat," "sexually obsessed", and "fevered Leda." Needless to say, this approach was never used when critics addressed male writers.
With Ugarte, Agustini had maintained an intense epistolary romance. Critics have often speculated on the dominant and protective personality of Agustini's mother while the poet's puritan father transcribed her erotic verses (Machado de Benvenuto, Silva). At a young age she began to compose and publish poems in literary journals such as "La Alborada," where she wrote a society column under the modernista pen name "Joujou." Soon she attracted the attention of Latin America's preeminent intellectuals who, however, remarked her beauty and youth over her poetry.
This volume confirms the eminence of the poet and contributes to her recent inclusion into the literary canon in which Delmira Agustini stands out as one of the most extraordinary voices of Latin American modern literature.
Personal life and death
She married Enrique Job Reyes on August 14, 1913. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
A month after that, Reyes fatally shot Agustini twice in the head and afterwards committed suicide. On one hand, "la Nena" (the Baby), as she was called in the private sphere, responded to the restrictive societal constructs of the era that denied sexuality to their upper-class women. p. 174.
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Dependence, Independence, and Death: Toward a Psychobiography of Delmira Agustini
Dependence, Independence, and Death: Toward a Psychobiography of Delmira Agustini depicts the life of Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) based on her poems and other writings.
She died in her house in Montevideo, Uruguay.[4] She is buried in the Central Cemetery of Montevideo. In these reviews critics continued to refer to Agustini using metaphors related to virginity and inspiration, an image that Agustini herself assumed and cultivated in accordance with the modernista rhetoric and the restricted roles imposed on the women of the age.
Bibliography
- 1907: El libro blanco[5]
- 1910: Cantos de la mañana[5]
- 1913: Los cálices vacíos, pórtico de Rubén Darío[5]
- 1924: Obras completas ("Complete Works"): Volume 1, El rosario de Eros; Volume 2: Los astros del abismo, posthumously published (died 1914), Montevideo, Uruguay: Máximo García[5]
- 1944: Poesías, prologue by Luisa Luisi (Montevideo, Claudio García & Co.[5])
- 1971: Poesías completas, prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar, Barcelona: Editorial Labor[5]
Works translated into other languages
Valerie Martínez has translated many of Agustini's poems into English.[6] Some of Agustini's poems are translated into Nepali by Suman Pokhrel, and collected in an anthology titled Manpareka Kehi Kavita.[7][8]
References
- ↑"Delmira Agustini | Uruguayan writer"[archive].
In 1993, the most complete and rigorous compilation to date of Agustini's poetry appeared, edited and introduced by Magdalena García Pinto. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
- ↑"Drunken Boat | Delmira Agustini"[archive].
- ↑Akhmatova, Anna; Świrszczyńska, Anna; Ginsberg, Allen; Agustini, Delmira; Farrokhzad, Forough; Mistral, Gabriela; Jacques, Jacques; Mahmoud, Mahmoud; Al-Malaika, Nazik; Hikmet, Nazim; Qabbani, Nizar; Paz, Octavio; Neruda, Pablo; Plath, Sylvia; Amichai, Yehuda (2018).
On one hand, "la Nena" (the Baby), as she was called in the private sphere, responded to the restrictive societal constructs of the era that denied sexuality to their upper-class women.