José Agustín Explained

Birth Name:José Agustín Ramírez Gómez
Birth Date:19 August 1944
Birth Place:Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Death Place:Cuautla, Morelos, Mexico
Period:1964–2024
Movement:La Onda

José Agustín Ramírez Gómez (19 August 1944 – 16 January 2024) was a Mexican novelist, short story writer, essayist and screenwriter.[1] Publishing under the pen name José Agustín, he was considered one of the most influential and prolific Mexican writers of the second half of the 20th century.[2]

Life and career

José Agustín was born in Acapulco, Guerrero, on 19 August 1944. He studied classical literature at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC) and dramaturgy at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBA).[3]

Agustín participated in Juan José Arreola's writers' workshop from 1962 to 1965, where he wrote his first novel, La tumba ("The Tomb"), when he was nineteen years old.[2] The novel was the brief but provocative story of a Mexican upper-class teen, deemed indecent by the public but gathering praise from older writers. This and his most famous work, De perfil ("Profile View"), a fast and detailed view of three days in the main character's life, show stylistic similarities to James Joyce's work, especially A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Agustín was considered a member of the so-called Onda literature, onda (wave) being slang for current and fashionable views in the eyes of young people.

A common technique in his work is mixing a character's speech with narrative, without making any kind of distinction (free indirect discourse). Thus the reader finds a long dialogue written in a single sentence, and is expected to realize which character is speaking as he reads the words. He also made use of the stream of consciousness technique.[4]

Agustín taught at the University of Denver, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of New Mexico.[5]

Agustín died in Cuautla, Morelos, on 16 January 2024, at the age of 79.[6]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Plays

(Vicious Circle (2021), tr. Eric W. Vogt.)

Essays

Chronicles

Autobiography

Translations

Filmography

In popular culture

The Mexican band Belafonte Sensacional wrote the song "Epic Aris" inspired by the literary works of José Agustín and Parménides García Saldaña, another writer who was considered a member of La Onda literature.[13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: José Agustín | Mexican author. 16 January 2024 .
  2. Web site: José Agustín Ramírez Gómez. www.gob.mx. Secretaría de Educación Pública. 1 January 2015. 6 January 2023. es.
  3. Web site: José Agustín. literatura.inba.gob.mx. 1 September 2017. 6 January 2023. es.
  4. Web site: Literatura en español: José Agustín. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100715234041/http://literaturaespanol.blogspot.com/2007/12/jos-agustn.html. 15 July 2010.
  5. Web site: José Agustín - Detalle del autor. Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México. 6 January 2023. es.
  6. News: Fallece el escritor José Agustín a los 79 años . 16 January 2024 . El Universal . 16 January 2024.
  7. Web site: José Agustín Ramírez Gómez - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 11 February 2010. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622010821/http://www.gf.org/fellows/11952-jose-agustin-ramirez-gomez . 22 June 2011.
  8. Web site: Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Juan Ruiz de Alarcón . Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura . 17 January 2024.
  9. Web site: José Agustín, uno de los mejores maestros de literatura. inba.gob.mx. Prensa INBA - Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. 19 August 2020. 6 January 2023. es.
  10. News: El Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, a intelectuales y alfareros . 17 January 2024 . La Jornada . 19 November 2011.
  11. Web site: 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa . Portal del Cine y el Audiovisual . Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano . 17 January 2024.
  12. Web site: Luz Externa (José Agustín, 1974) . .
  13. Web site: Belafonte Sensacional estrena video de "Epic Aris". Indie Rocks!. 21 January 2019. 6 January 2023. es.

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