The different constructions of Rubén Darío by Juan Ramón Jiménez. Portrait with a background sea

  • Alfonso García Morales Universidad de Sevilla
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ALHI.55123
Keywords: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rubén Darío, literary portrait, sea and poetry, Ruben Dario’s iconography.

Abstract

The literary portrait “Rubén Darío (1940)” that Juan Ramón Jiménez published that year in Letras de México and that later he included in the work Españoles de tres mundos (1942), it is probably the most significant of the texts he devoted to Darío, whom he considered his disciple and successor. As a matter of fact, Juan Ramón Jiménez conceived a special place for him in his unfinished project Mi Rubén Darío. The present paper reconstructs and illustrates the origin, evolution, and meaning of the central image in the portrait: A Rubén Darío associated with the sea. This image already appeared in the first text dedicated to Darío in 1903, and remained, through different variations, for over forty years. Moreover, this analysis decodes the surprising relationships between this image and the iconography associated to Rubén Darío.

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Published
2017-02-01
How to Cite
García Morales A. (2017). The different constructions of Rubén Darío by Juan Ramón Jiménez. Portrait with a background sea. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 45, 213-230. https://doi.org/10.5209/ALHI.55123
Issue
Vol. 45 (2016): Formación e invención de tradiciones literarias: perspectivas recientes
Section
Archivo Rubén Darío

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