Edgardo rodriguez julia biography

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Among the most gifted and versatile voices of his historically revisionist generation in Puerto Rico is the novelist and essayist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá is a Puerto Rican essayist and novelist.

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Cities impose their will upon us, and what we say about them has as much to do with “the regimen cities keep over imagination”* as it does with us. The city that swallows the writer is in turn, however he can manage it, swallowed by the writer: the Dublin of Ulysses, the Paris of Remembrance of Things Past, Berlin Alexanderplatz, the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler. Never again will we look at Dublin without thinking of Joyce or Los Angeles without checking Chandler. Add Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's San Juan to that list.

Although Rodriguez Julia loosely follows the form of the travel narrative, this is no sightseeing tour. He begins at age eleven when his family moved to Calle de Diego, with its “working class rhythm,” near the Avenida 65 de Infanteria highway (named for the all-volunteer regiment of Puerto Ricans that fought in three American wars), and takes us around the city in a geographic circle only to return, finally, via the recently built Moscoso Bridge, to Calle de Diego. It is less autobiography than drift of the flaneur, with Ro

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Rodríguez Juliá, Edgardo (1946–)

Among the most gifted and versatile voices of his historically revisionist generation in Puerto Rico is the novelist and essayist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. His early novels—La renuncia del héroe Baltasar (1974; The Renunciation, 1997) and La noche oscura del Niño Avilés (1984)—skillfully blend, with considerable narrative verve and formal ingenuity, elements of fact and fiction, realism and myth, revelation and coverup, past and present. Each evokes the baroque ambiance of colonial Puerto Rico as it reveals the political, social, and cultural drama of the era and, offering a revised view of island history, proposes that dilemmas of race, caste, and class inherited from that formative period are still powerful, if calculatedly elided, features of Puerto Rico's contemporary reality. El camino de Yyaloide (1993) extends his chronicle of the fictive Nueva Venecia begun with La noche oscura del Niño Avilés, and so completes its author's eighteenth-century trilogy of novels.

The short stories of Cortejos fúnebres (1997) and novels Sol de m

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Edgardo Rodriguez Julia Biography

Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá is one of the most prolific and ambitious Caribbean writers of recent times. Since 1974, when La renuncia del héroe Baltasar (The Renunciation of the Hero Baltasar) appeared, he has published eight books: two novels on the eighteenth century, one of them ominously long since it presents itself as the first installment of a still-unfinished trilogy; four collections of short works chronicling modern Puerto Rico from the beginning of the Muñoz era to the Cerro Maravilla murders; a thorough critical study of José Campeche, the first Puerto Rican painter of the colonial era; and Puertorriqueños: Album de la sagrada familia puertorriqueña a partir de 1898 (Puerto Ricans: An Album of the Sacred Puerto Rican Family Since 1898, 1989), a history of the development of the island's petite bourgeoisie based on the snapshots from a photograph album. In...

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