Juan Ramón Jiménez
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Juan Ramón Jiménez | |
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Andalucia, Spain | |
Died | 29 May 1958 San Juan, Puerto Rico | (aged 76)
Occupation | poet |
Nationality | Spanish |
Genre | poetry |
Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1956 |
Spouse | Zenobia Camprubí |
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Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (Spanish pronunciation: [xwan raˈmoŋ xiˈmeneθ manteˈkon];[a] 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature[1] "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the concept of "pure poetry".
Biography
Juan Ramón Jiménez was born in
The main subjects of many of his other poems were music and color, which, at times, he compared to love or lust.
He suffered a
Upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he and Zenobia went into exile in Puerto Rico, where he settled in 1946. Jiménez was hospitalized for eight months due to another deep depression. He later became a Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Puerto Rico. His literary influence on Puerto Rican writers strongly marks the works of Giannina Braschi, René Marqués, Aurora de Albornoz, and Manuel Ramos Otero.[5] The university named a building on campus and a writing program in his honor. He was also a professor at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. While living in Coral Gables he wrote "Romances de Coral Gables". In addition, he was a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland, which renamed Jimenez Hall for him in 1981.
In 1956, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature; two days later, his wife died of ovarian cancer. Jiménez never recovered from the emotional devastation, and he died two years afterwards, on 29 May 1958, in the same clinic where his wife had died. Both are buried in his hometown of Moguer, Spain.
Although he was primarily a poet, Jiménez' prose work
In popular culture
- A quotation from Jiménez, "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way," is the epigraph to Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
- The same quotation used in Fahrenheit 451 is used in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
- In 1968, the Spanish film director Alfredo Castellón adapted Jiménez's novel Platero and I into a movie by the same title.
- The Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) by the Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi features a scene in which poets and artists debate Jiménez's genius versus that of other Spanish-language poets Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Rubén Darío, Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, and Julia de Burgos.[6]
- A rock band in Spain is named Platero y Tú after Jiménez's novel
Streets named after Jiménez
Several streets have been named after Jiménez, including one in
Published works (original editions)
- Ninfeas (Water Lilies), 1900-Madrid.
- Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), 1900-Madrid.
- Rimas (Rhymes), 1902-Madrid.
- Arias tristes (Sad Arias), 1902
- Jardines lejanos (Distant Gardens), 1904
- Elejías puras (Pure Elegies), 1908
- Elejías intermedias (Intermediate Elegies), 1909
- Las hojas verdes (The Green Leaves), 1909
- Poemas mágicos y dolientes (Magic and Painful Poems), 1909
- Elejías lamentables (Sad Elegies), 1910
- Baladas de primavera (Ballads of Spring), 1910
- La soledad sonora (The Sonorous Loneliness), 1911
- Pastorales (Pastoral), 1911
- Melancolía (the sonorous loneliness), 1912
- Laberinto (Labyrinth), 1913
- Platero y yo(Platero and I) (edición reducida), 1914
- Estío (Summer), 1916
- Sonetos espirituales (Spiritual Sonnets), 1917
- Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Recently Married Poet), 1917
- Platero y yo (edición completa) (Platero and I), 1917
- Eternidades (Eternities), 1918
- Piedra y cielo (Stone and Sky), 1919
- Segunda antología poética (Second Poetic Anthology), 1922
- Poesía (Poetry), 1923
- Belleza (Beauty), 1923
- Canción (Song), 1935
- Voces de mi copla (Voices of my Verse), 1945
- La estación total (The Full Season), 1946
- Romances de Coral Gables (Romances from Coral Gables), 1948
- Animal de fondo (Animal from the Deep), 1949
- Una colina meridiana (A Shining Hill) , 1950 (1° edición en España: Huerga & Fierro editores, 2002). Prólogo y estudio preliminar de Alfonso Alegre Heitzmann.
- La frente pensativa (1911-1912) [cuatro poemas inéditos] (The Thoughtful Face), introducción de José Luis Puerto, Zamora: Lucerna, 2001.
Published works (translations)
- Books of Love: The Lost Poems of Juan Ramon Jimenez. Athens:Kinchafoonee Creek Press, 2022.
See also
Notes
References
- ^ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Juan Ramón Jiménez".
- ^ Mateo Pérez, Manuel (November 10, 2010). "Moguer y Juan Ramón Jiménez". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Juan Ramón Jiménez. Biografía". Instituto Cervantes (in Spanish). Madrid. March 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ "Prometeo (Madrid. 1908)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ "Elemental Creature". The Times Literary Supplement (in Spanish). March 10, 2015. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
His lyrical and philosophical work influencing Puerto Rican writers such as Manuel Ramos Otero and René Marqués.
- ISBN 0-935480-97-8.
- ^ "Calle de Juan Ramón Jiménez". Callejero.net (in Spanish). Madrid: Hispanetwork Publicidad y Servicios, SL. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
- ^ "C/ Juan Ramón Jiménez". Callejero.net (in Spanish). Valencia: Hispanetwork Publicidad y Servicios, SL. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
Bibliography
- de Albornoz, Aurora, ed. 1980. Juan Ramón Jiménez. Madrid: Taurus.
- Blasco, F. J. 1982. La Poética de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Desarrollo, contexto y sistema. Salamanca.
- Campoamor González, Antonio. 1976. Vida y poesía de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Madrid: Sedmay.
- Campoamor González, Antonio. 1982. Bibliografía general de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Madrid: Taurus.
- El Cultural. 14 Jun 2007. Los poemas eróticos de Juan Ramon Jiménez. Aparece Libros de amor. Conoce los poemas del JRJ más lujurioso
- Diario de Córdoba. 6 Jan 2007. ´Libros de amor´ descubre a un Juan Ramón Jiménez erótico Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Díez-Canedo, E. 1944. Juan Ramón Jiménez en su obra. México City.
- Guardian (London). 19 Jun 2007. My sex in the convent - by Nobel poet
- Font, María T. 1973. Espacio: autobiografía lírica de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Madrid.
- Guerrero Ruiz, J . 1961. Juan Ramón de viva voz. Madrid.
- Gullón, R. 1958. Conversaciones con Juan Ramón Jiménez. Madrid.
- Jensen, Julio, 2012, The Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez. An Example of Modern Subjectivity. Copenhagen.
- Juliá, M. 1989. El universo de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Madrid.
- Olson, P.R. 1967. Circle of Paradox: time and essence in the poetry of Juan Ramon Jimenez. Baltimore.
- Palau de Nemes, G. 1974. Vida y obra de Juan Ramón Jiménez. 2/e. 2 v. Madrid: Gredos.
- Predmore, Michael P. 1966. La obra en prosa de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Madrid: Gredos.
- Salgado, M. A. 1968. El arte polifacético de las caricaturas líricas juanramonianas. Madrid.
External links
- Works by Juan Ramón Jiménez at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Juan Ramón Jiménez at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by or about Juan Ramón Jiménez at Internet Archive
- Fundacion Casa-Museo Zenobia y Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- Juan Ramón Jiménez on Nobelprize.org
- Juan Ramón Jiménez at Find a Grave
- Juan Ramón Jiménez at IMDb
- Juan Ramon Jimenez recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on May 17, 1947, Sept. 29, and Dec. 8, 1949