Alfonso Toral Moreno Explained

Alfonso Toral Moreno
Birth Date:24 December 1914
Birth Place:Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Death Date:3 January 2003 (aged 88)
Death Place:Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Occupation:short story writer, essayist, and proofreader
Spouse:Ana Rosa Ávila Zerecero
Father:Pascual María Toral Ruiz (physician and philologist)
Mother:Rosa Moreno Fonseca
Relatives:José de León Toral (cousin)

Alfonso Toral Moreno (24 December 1914 – 3 January 2003) was a Mexican short story writer, essayist, and proofreader.

Biography

Alfonso Toral Moreno was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, on 24 December 1914.[1]

In the 1950s and 1960s he collaborated with stories and essays in the literary magazine Et Caetera, edited by .[2]

From 1980 to 1 March 1983, he was the editorial advisor to the bimonthly literature magazine Summa, directed by .[3]

According to literary critic and essayist Emmanuel Carballo, Toral's narrative texts were "well-intentioned and insipid."[4]

Fond of coffee and café, in the 1940s and 1950s he was a regular at Café Apolo, located at the corner of Avenida Juárez and Calle Galeana in downtown Guadalajara,[5] where he used to proofread galley proofs from the printing house of the University of Guadalajara. There he talked with Adalberto Navarro Sánchez and this one's wife, María Luisa Hidalgo, Alfredo Leal Cortés, Arturo Rivas Sainz, Salvador Echavarría, Ramón Rubín, Olivia Zúñiga, Lola Vidrio, and other writers.[6] Years later, after the Apolo was permanently closed, he used to go to the Treve and Madoka cafes, also downtown.[7]

In 1982, his wife Ana Rosa Ávila Zerecero (6 June 1929 – 7 October 1982) passed away.

Alfonso Toral was the first cousin of assassin José de León Toral, who on 17 July 1928, killed General Álvaro Obregón, re-elected president of Mexico.[8]

Tribute to Agustín Yáñez

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the writer from Guadalajara Agustín Yáñez (1904–1980), author and cultural promoter Martín Almádez organized a diachronic tribute collected on 29 March 2004 in a page from the Arts section of the Guadalajaran newspaper El Informador. Toral declared that his envy of Agustín Yáñez because the latter's novel, The Creation, did not come from himself feeling like a novelist, since he was not. "With my apodictic rancorous phrase that finished off the mending I did on the novel, I did not think of any competition; I confessed my collapse on the rocks of my own incompetence".[9]

Death

Alfonso Toral Moreno died in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on 3 January 2003, at the age of 88.

Some of his works

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Villegas de Luna, Florita. "Alfonso Toral Moreno. Indagaciones sobre su vida y su obra", in: El fulgor y la flama. Estudios sobre escritores de Jalisco. Colección Humanidades. 20 March 2022. 2016. Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco. 9786077340799. Jorge Souza Jauffred. Guadalajara. 355–373. es. 9 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230209090335/https://sc.jalisco.gob.mx/sites/sc.jalisco.gob.mx/files/el_fulgor_y_la_flama_web.pdf. live.
  2. Book: Valderrama Villanueva, Pedro. Et Caetera (1950–1988). 20 March 2022. 2014. Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco. 9786077340317. Guadalajara. es. 25 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220525200339/http://sic.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=fondo_editorial&table_id=6424. live.
  3. Web site: Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México. Alfonso Toral Moreno. es. 20 March 2022. 14 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220314020007/http://www.elem.mx/autor/datos/116985. live.
  4. Carballo, Emmanuel, Ya nada es igual, memorias (1929–1953), Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco/Editorial Diana, Guadalajara/Ciudad de México, 1994, p. 276.
  5. Web site: El Café Apolo, Esq. Juárez y Galeana, p. 11, 8th. col. . El Informador . es . 27 October 1948 . 20 June 2023.
  6. Carballo, op. cit., p. 270.
  7. Web site: La otra historia de las letras tapatías. You will need to pay a visit to the digital newspaper library of El Informador. Once there, please look for the orange words "Navegación Directa", tap/click on them, then click on a square, left of "No Soy Un Robot", get approved at the Captcha challenge-response, and look for the date Año (Year) → 2002 █ Mes (Month) → 09 █ Día (Day) → 04; then, tap/click on page "29", and you may seek an orange rectangle which reads: "Ver PDF" (See PDF), click/tap on it. es. El Informador. 4 September 2002. 5 June 2022. 6 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160506002334/http://hemeroteca.informador.com.mx/. live.
  8. Web site: El corazón, una cuestión toral. Artefacto. Revista de la escuela lacaniana de psicoanálisis, No. 9. es. 20 March 2022. 5 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170505204512/http://www.psicomundo.com/mexico/artefacto/corazon.htm. live.
  9. Web site: Perfiles de Agustín, el hombre homenaje. You will need to pay a visit to the digital newspaper library of El Informador. Once there, please look for the orange words "Navegación Directa", tap/click on them, then click on a square, left of "No Soy Un Robot", get approved at the Captcha challenge-response, and look for the date Año (Year) → 2004 █ Mes (Month) → 03 █ Día (Day) → 29; then, tap/click on page "42", and you may seek an orange rectangle which reads: "Ver PDF" (See PDF), click/tap on it . es . El Informador, p. 20-B (indexed as page "42" in the digital newspaper library) . 29 March 2004 . 5 June 2022 . 6 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506002334/http://hemeroteca.informador.com.mx/ . live .
  10. Web site: Dirección General de Bibliotecas, Secretaría de Cultura, México. es. 20 March 2022. 9 February 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230209090836/http://koha.dgb.cultura.gob.mx/cgi-bin/koha/opac-ISBDdetail.pl?biblionumber=69793&query_desc=Provider%3AUNIDAD%20EDITORIAL%2C%22. live.
  11. Web site: Agenda de la cultura. Travesías de un café, pp. 4-5 . El Informador . es . 7 October 1990 . 17 June 2023.
  12. Web site: La novela y el cuento como problema metafísico. es. 20 March 2022. 14 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220314015026/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/31766685_La_novela_y_el_cuento_como_problema_metafisico_A_Toral_Moreno. live.

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