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Azul
The cover of Azul's first edition
AuthorRubén Darío
Publication date
1888

Azul is a collection of

short stories and poetry by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. It was published in 1888 as Darío's first major work and a major work of the Modernismo literary movement.[1][2]
He is commonly considered the initiator of literary modernism, a thesis that has been supported by personalities such as Octavio Paz, Ángel Rama or Darío himself. However, it is worth noting the works Ismaelillo (1882) by Martí and Cuentos fragilas (1883) by Gutiérrez Nájera as precursors of this movement.

Content and reception

Precocious and prolific, from the age of 14 he signed the name Rubén Darío to his poems and stories of love, heroism, and adventure, which, although imitative in form, showed a strikingly vivid imagination. In 1886 he left

sentence structure, replacing it with simple and direct language. Both the prose and poetry in this volume are generally concerned with objective description, and both deal with exotic subjects, chiefly classical mythology, France, and Asia. As a whole, the volume exhibits Darío’s concern with “art for art's sake,” and it reveals little interest in everyday life.

— The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rubén Darío, Encyclopædia Britannica

References

  1. ^ "Rubén Darío". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica. 2022-02-28. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  2. ^ "Modernismo Latin American art Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-03-29.