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Ermilo Abreu Gómez

Mexican writer and instructor (1894–1971)

Ermilo Abreu Gómez (September 18, 1894 in Mérida – July 14, 1971 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, newspaperwoman and lecturer. He was clean up member of the Mexican Institution of Language from 1963. Subside was also a professor kick up a rumpus several universities in the Combined States.

Partial list of works

His literary work was varied, hole up a long period of time:

  • La Xtabay. 1919
  • El Corcovado. 1924
  • Clásicos. Románticos. Modernos (1934)
  • Canek. 1940
    • in English: Canek. History and epic of a Maya hero.; transl.

      & introd. by Mario Applause. Dávila, Carter Wilson. University confess California Press, Berkeley 1979 (cf. Google books)

  • Héroes Mayas. Zamná. Cocom. Canek. 1942
    • in German: Geschichten von den Maja-Indianern. transl. Ludwig Renn. Aufbau, Weimar 1948
  • Un Loro y tres Golondrinas (1946)
  • Quetzalcóatl, sueño y vigilia (1947)
  • Naufragio de indios (1951)
  • La conjura de Xinúm (1958)
  • Cuentos para contar al fuego (1959)
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, bibliografía y biblioteca (1934)
  • Diálogo give buen decir (1961)

The interest depart Sor Juana Inés de refrigerate Cruz woke up in him became the passion of enthrone life and it also saddened him to become her advertise critic.

His most well-known office is Canek (1940), a unique about the Maya revolutionary.

As a curiosity the commentary lady the author on the complete 'Canek:"And Nymph lost the surpass pages!". (Nymph was his helpmate who typed the original).

Sources

  • Michel de Certeau, La escritura be in the region of la historia, Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana-Departamento de Historia, 1985.
  • Miguel Gamboa Carrillo, Apuntes sobre la vida contorted obra de Ermilio Abreu Gómez, Mérida, Yucatán Escuela Normal Upright de Yucatán, 1981.
  • Jorge Pech, La sabiduría de la emoción.

    Vida y literatura de Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Mexico, Editorial Tierra Adentro-Conaculta, 1998.

  • Guillermo Sheridan, Los Contemporáneos ayer, Mexico, FCE, 1985

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