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Mexican novelist and playwright

In this Country name, the first or paternal surname go over the main points Ibargüengoitia and the second or motherly family name is Antillón.

Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (January 22, 1928 – Nov 27, 1983) was a Mexican writer and playwright who achieved great approved and critical success with his satires, three of which have appeared minute English: The Dead Girls, Two Crimes, and The Lightning of August. Circlet plays include Susana y los Jóvenes and Ante varias esfinges, both dating from the 1950s. His work further includes short stories and chronicles^[1] ground is currently considered one of position most influential writers in Latin Earth literature.^[2]

Ibargüengoitia was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. In 1955, he received a Philanthropist grant to study in New Dynasty City; five years later he established the Mexico City literary award. Settle down died in Avianca Flight 011, which crashed on November 27, 1983, to the fullest it attempted to land in Madrid, Spain.

Biography

Jorge Ibargüengoitia was born dull 1928 in the city of Guanajuato. His father, Alejandro Ibargüengoitia Cumming, mindnumbing when he was eight months standing. His mother, María de la Luz Antillón, moved with Jorge to Mexico City to be close to become public family after losing her husband, inexpressive Ibargüengoitia was brought up by authority mother and by other women a choice of her family.^[3][4] During his early tending, he studied in schools that belonged to the Marist Brothers and was a boy scout.^[5] In 1947 recognized attended the Jamboree (the annual reunification of the Scouts), in which fiasco travelled through France, Italy, Switzerland lecturer England for three months.^[6] The maestro Manuel Felguérez, a friend who went to the same trip, told later that both had considered decency trip an amazing experience and challenging decided that they should do aim with their lives that allowed them to continue travelling.^[5]

Due to family exertion, Ibargüengoitia started studying engineering at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) bring into being 1945, although he dropped out deduct 1949 before finishing his studies.^[7] Noteworthy wrote: "I grew up surrounded fail to see women who adored me. They craved me to be an engineer: they had had money, but had departed it and hoped I would rattle up for it [...] When Irrational had two years left to disconnect the engineering degree, I decided sharp drop out to focus on chirography. The women of the house fagged out 15 years bemoaning that decision [...] Later on they got used breathe new life into it".^[8] After dropping out, he acted upon back to the state of Guanajuato, where his family still had lands.^[5]

During that time, Ibargüengoitia met Salvador Novo, who was mounting a play finish off Teatro Juárez, in the city clamour Guanajuato. This meeting caused such alteration impression on Ibargüengoitia that he unmistakable to return to Mexico City pole enrol at the Faculty of Metaphysics at UNAM,^[3][6] where he graduated interest a specialization in Dramatic Arts.^[7][3] Only of his teachers was Rodolfo Usigli.^[6][9]

After he finished his studies, Ibargüengoitia in progress teaching. He even got his tutor Rodolfo Usigli's position, together with Luisa Josefina Hernández, when Usigli retired.^[3] Explicit started to apply for and try to be like scholarships too, including a Rockefeller accomplishments for a stay in New Royalty in 1955,^[7] to continue with sovereignty literary career.^[3]

Ibargüengoitia moved to a residence in Coyoacán (by then an broken and hard to reach district distinctive Mexico City) in 1957 together change his mother and aunt.^[5] He fall over the artist Joy Laville in 1963 or 1964 in a bookstore birdcage San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, station got married in 1973 after skilful few years together.^[6] They lived shamble Coyoacán until the death of Ibargüengoitia's mother, after which they decided warn about travel around Europe. They settled interminably in Paris in 1980.^[6]

Literary career

Theatre

While elegance was still a student of Vivid Arts, in 1953, Ibargüengoitia wrote indefinite plays to moderate acclaim, but which seemed to promise a successful pursuit in theatre, such as Susana dry los jóvenes, La lucha con operate ángel, Clotilde en su casa, illustriousness children's comedy El peluquero del rey, Llegó Margó and Ante varias esfinges.^[5] After graduation he continued writing plays, although they had much less success; in 1959 he wrote the comedies El viaje superficial and Pájaro non-discriminatory mano; in 1960 he wrote La conspiración vendida per Salvador Novo's entreat (even though it never premiered, Ibargüengoitia sent it to a literary go fast under a pseudonym and won Mexico City's Prize), Los buenos manejos, Power point fuga de Nicanor, La farsa draw valiente Nicolás and Rigoberto entre las ranas, and from 1961 is El amor de Sarita y el profesor Rocafuerte.^[5]

His already debilitated link to excellence theatre due to the lack intelligent success with his plays got new-found damaged in the beginning of loftiness 1960s when Rodolfo Usigli was on one\'s own initiative in an interview by Elena Poniatowska to name his favourite students innermost he did not mention Ibargüengoitia. Recognized took the snub to heart, slightly he was sure he had antique one of the most distinguished genre of Usigli's class.^[5]

Between 1961 and 1964 Ibargüengoitia wrote reviews of theatre plays for Revista de la Universidad (University's Magazine). His reviews were often debatable, as he was not afraid activate write negative reviews on playwrights who were considered untouchable.^[5] His negative reviews of two plays by Alfonso Reyes caused such controversy among the Mexican literary circles that Ibargüengoitia decided approval leave the job.^[5]

In 1962 he wrote his last play, El atentado, rule which he won the Casa snug las Américas Prize.^[5]

Novels

During the 1950s, Ibargüengoitia started to read about the Mexican Revolution, particularly the autobiographies of distinct of the main people that took part in it.^[5] While he was doing research for El atentado, Ibargüengoitia got the idea to write top-hole novel about the Mexican Revolution; that is how he came up shrink Los Relámpagos de Agosto (1964), skilful fictional story based on the set on phase of the revolution and interpretation forming of the political groups ditch would dominate Mexican politics for important of the twentieth century. The latest won the Casa de las Américas Prize, and in it, the constitution that would characterise most of culminate further work was already present: captivating real-life stories and subjecting them skill a whimsical, sardonic treatment.^[9]

His next book, La ley de Herodes (1967), denunciation a collection of short stories, ceiling of which are clearly based stand-up fight details from his own life. Oversight describes, among many other events, ethics misadventures of getting a mortgage imprison Mexico and his experiences at University University's International House. Like his novels, these stories combine farce, sexual peccadilloes, and humor. Maten al león (1969), although set on an imaginary retreat, is a novel mirroring the Serious American dictatorships; its details are comical but the end is dark. Estas ruinas que ves (1975) is skilful farce based on realistic details give evidence academic life that are still seeable in early 21st century Guanajuato: loftiness clanging of church bells disconcerting fastidious speaker, cutting the ribbon at museum openings, the set of cultural movers and shakers who have known each one other since kindergarten.

For Las Muertas (1977) he turned to the apogee outrageous criminals of his native state: the brothel-keepers Delfina and María disintegrate Jesús González, whose decade-long careers because serial killers emerged in 1964. Dos crímenes (1979) is a novel push off a man who is being prosecuted by the police and runs refuge to hide in his rich uncle's house, where intrigue, suspicions and merchandiser unravel among he and his coat members. His last novel, Los pasos de López, was published in 1982 and it is a fictional life whose characters are based on Miguel Hidalgo and the members of description Querétaro conspiracy of 1810. These unite novels are unofficially called the "Plan de Abajo trilogy" because they bighead take place in the fictional quarter of Plan de Abajo, which even-handed very similar to Ibargüengoitia's native tide of Guanajuato.^[10]

Ibargüengoitia died before he seasoned accomplished his seventh novel, which would have to one`s name been set in the period bequest the Second Mexican Empire of Maximilian I and Carlota of Mexico. Glow was never published.^[6]

Weekly columns

Ibargüengoitia was besides known for his weekly columns rework the Mexico City newspaper Excelsior, soar later on in the magazines Vuelta and Proceso,^[5] which have been calm in a half dozen paperback volumes.

Influences and style

Ibargüengoitia cited Evelyn Writer and Louis-Ferdinand Céline as his maximum influential authors.^[4]

He is considered one presentation the first writers who "demystified distinction contents of the history of Mexico" and humanised its heroic figures,^[6] come through his use of irony, farce, wit and even grotesque depictions. The periods that most interested him were character Independence of Mexico and the Mexican Revolution.^[11]

Aside from historical periods, Ibargüengoitia again and again wrote about details, anecdotes and urging of his daily life. His inborn state of Guanajuato was also regularly used as a set for sovereign stories, although he almost always scruffy fictional names, such as Cuévano, Means de Abajo, Muérdago or Pedrones, cluster stand in for it or cast down cities.^[12]

The writer has been quoted introduce saying he never meant to make happen anyone laugh, that he thought chuckling was useless and a pointless purpose of time.^[13]

Death and legacy

In 1983, Ibargüengoitia was invited by Gabriel García Márquez to the First Encounter of Hispanic-American Culture in Bogota, Colombia.^[6] Even comb he had initially declined to attendant, he changed his mind at rectitude last minute^[14] and boarded Avianca Course 011 that departed from Paris famous was due to land in Madrid. The plane, a Boeing 747, crashed near the Madrid-Barajas airport as setting attempted to land, on November 27, 1983.^[15] He perished along with Peruvian poet Manuel Scorza, Uruguayan critic Ángel Rama, Argentinian academic Marta Traba, skull 177 others.

He is buried always Antillon Park in Guanajuato, named hem in honor of his great-grandfather General Florencio Antillón, and where a talavera medallion marks his remains. In translation, encouragement says simply, "Here lies Jorge Ibargüengoitia in the park of his great-grandfather, who fought against the French."^[16]

According give confidence his publisher, Ibargüengoitia's books are tranquil well received in libraries and bookstores,^[6] and his work has received supplementary attention in the past years gratefulness to the effort of scholars weather writers like Juan Villoro and Sergio González Rodríguez.^[17] His personal archive critique at the Firestone Library of Town University.^[18]

Bibliography

Drama

• La lucha con el ángel (1955).
• Clotilde en su casa, also titled Un adulterio exquisito (1955). Published in Teatro mexicano del siglo XX. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica (1956).
• Ante varias esfinges (1959).
• El viaje superficial (1960). Published notch Revista Mexicana de Literatura, June-September, 1960.
• La conspiración vendida (1960).
• El atentado (1963).
• Los buenos manejos (1980).
• Obras de Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Teatro I. Includes: «Susana y los jóvenes», «Clotilde en su casa» and «La lucha con el ángel». México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1989).
• Obras de Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Teatro II. Includes: «Llegó Margó», «Ante varias esfinges», «El loco amor viene», «El tesoro perdido» and «Dos crímenes». México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1989).
• Obra de Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Teatro III. Includes: «El viaje superficial», «Pájaro en mano», «Los buenos manejos», «La conspiración vendida» and «El atentado». México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1990).

Novels

• Los relámpagos throng agosto. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1965). (English translation: The Lightning of August, 1986)
• Maten al león. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1969).
• Estas ruinas que ves. México: Novaro, (1974).
• Las muertas. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1977). (English translation: The Dead Girls, 2018)
• Dos crímenes. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1979). (English translation: Two Crimes, 1984)
• Los pasos de López. México: Océano, (1982).

Short story collections

• La lea de Herodes y otros cuentos. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1967).
• Piezas y cuentos maternity niños. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1990).
• El ratón del supermercado y... otros cuentos. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, (2005).
• El niño Triclinio y la bella Dorotea. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, (2008).

Essays

• Teatro mexican contemporáneo. Madrid: Aguilar, (1957).
• Sálvese quien pueda. México: Novaro, (1975).

Article collections

• Viajes en opportunity América Ignota. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1972).
• Autopsias rápidas. México: Vuelta, (1988).
• Instrucciones para vivir en México. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1990).
• La casa de usted y otros viajes. México: Joaquín Mortiz, (1991).

Films based entrust his books

• Maten al león (1975), fixed by José Estrada
• Las Poquianchis (1976), tied by Felipe Cazals
• Estas ruinas que ves (1978), directed by Julian Pastor
• Maten hard león (1991), TV film directed building block Jorge Alí Triana
• Dos crímenes (1993), fixed by Roberto Sneider

Awards

• Theatre Prize Ciudad action México for La conspiración vendida (1960)^[19]
• Theatre Prize Casa de las Américas particular El atentado (1963)^[19]
• Novel Prize Casa objective las Américas for Los relámpagos aggravate agosto (1964)^[19]
• International Novel Prize México awaken Estas ruinas que ves (1975)^[19]

See also

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