Nataniel Aguirre
Nataniel Aguirre | |
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Born | Nataniel Aguirre González (sometimes his second surname is represented as: González-Prada or González de Prada) October 10, 1843 Cochabamba, Bolivia |
Died | September 11, 1888 Montevideo, Uruguay | (aged 44)
Occupation | Writer, politician, diplomat, lawyer |
Genre | Novel |
Notable works | Juan de la Rosa |
Spouse | Margarita Achá |
Children | 9 |
Relatives | Miguel María de Aguirre (Father) María Manuela González de Prada (Mother) |
Nataniel Aguirre (
Early life
Born in the Hacienda de Huayllani, in the
He finished high school in Sucre in 1857 and shortly afterwards met Margarita de Achá, daughter of the president José María de Achá. Aguirre adored her and dedicated a poem to her, and married her on March 30, 1864 after graduating law school. They had nine children, one of which, José, also became a writer and politician.
Studies and politics
Aguirre studied law at the
In 1864 he was named secretary of the Bolivian Delegation in Lima. The González Prada family, relatives of Aguirre on his mother's side, introduced him to intellectual and political circles in Peru.
That year he wrote a play called Visionarios y mártires, about two characters,the Peruvian patriots Manuel Ubalde and Gabriel Aguilar, who in 1805 had conceived in
The following year he returned to Bolivia to contribute to the forces of his father-in-law, who had been overthrown by the military coup of Mariano Melgarejo.
After the violent death of the dictator
He defended the necessity of a large agrarian reform and supported the indigenous people. He once said: “Hagamos del pobre indio un ciudadano como nosotros” (We will make the poor Indian a citizen like us). In 1885, the same year of the foundation of the Liberal Party, he was made the leader for it in Cochabamba.
Literature
Member of the Generación de 1880, among whose works stood out were Represalia del Héroe, Biografía de Francisco Burdett O'Connor, Bolivia en la Guerra del Pacífico and the novel that was made famous, Juan de la Rosa. This novel —originally published with the title Cochabamba. Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement and whose authorship was doubted—,[4] is, according to critics and experts, one of the fundamentals of Bolivian literature.[2] He also wrote plays and poems.
Later life
He died in Montevideo, on the way to Brazil, where the government of Gregorio Pacheco had sent him as plenipotentiary minister to the court of Pedro II. His remains were repatriated to Cochabamba, where they are buried now in the mausoleum of the public cemetery. [citation needed]
Works
- Visionarios y mártires (1864), play, about the Peruvian patriots Manuel Ubalde and Gabriel Aguilar
- Represalia de un héroe (1868), play, about the patriot Nicolás Bravo, a piece based on an event in the independence movement in Mexico that occurred in Oaxaca in 1812
- El general Francisco Burdett O'Connor (1874), about an Irishman who arrived with the armies of Sucre and remained in Bolivia; Imprenta de la Unión Americana, La Paz (unfinished)
- Unitarismo y federalismo (1877), Imprenta del Siglo, Cochabamba
- Bolivia en la Guerra del Pacífico (1882–83), Imprenta de El Heraldo, Cochabamba (unfinished)
- El Libertador: comprendio histórico de la vida de Simón Bolívar (1883), Imprenta de El Heraldo, Cochabamba (unfinished)
- La bellísima Floriana (1886),[4] novel
- Don Ego, short story
- Cochabamba. Memorias del último soldado de la independencia, novel, published in 1884 in installments by the newspaper El Heraldo under the pseudonym of Juan de la Rosa and whose printing press released the first edition in book the following year
- Juan de la Rosa. Memorias del último soldado de la independencia, second edition of the novel made by the bookshop of Vda. de C. Bouret, México/París, 1909, already with the authority of Aguirre
References
- ^ Hyalmar Blixen. Nataniel Aguirre: entre el romanticismo y el realismo, originally published in the newspaper Lea, Montevideo, 15.10.1988 and reproduced on the website Letras Uruguay; acceso 01.01.2013
- ^ a b Encuesta de Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert, Las 10 mejores novelas de la literatura boliviana: la vuelta a la literatura en diez mundos, Plural Editores, 2004
- ^ Alba María Paz Soldán. Cronología de Nataliel Aguirre, in the edition of Juan de la Rosa from Biblioteca Ayacucho (Nº222), Editorial Latina, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005
- ^ a b Gustavo V. García. Nataniel Aguirre no es el autor de ‘Juan de la Rosa’, article originally published in La Razón, 19.09.2010 and reproduced by Ecdotica, 26.10.2010; acceso 02.01.2013