Jesús Gardea

Jesús Gardea Rocha (Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico; July 2, 1939 - March 12, 2000) was a Mexican writer.

Biography

Jesús Gardea Rocha was born on July 2, 1939, son of Vicente Gardea V. and Francisca Rocha, in Delicias, Chihuahua. There he conducted his primary studies, at Primary School No. 306, while his secondary studies were carried out at Benjamin N. Velasco school in the city of Querétaro, and Baccalaureate in Mexico City. He studied and obtained his degree in Dentistry at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, and exercised this profession in Ciudad Juárez.

is considered one of the most prominent storytellers of Mexican literature. He is the author of the book of poems, songs for a single rope (1982); of the stories books, on Friday of Lautaro I> (1985), The lights of the world (1986), difficult to catch (1995) and where the gymnast (1999); and of the novels, the sun you are looking at (1981), the song of the dead mules (1981), the Tornavoz (1983), Dream the war (1984), musicians and fire (1985), Sóbol (1985), The devil in the eye (1989), The water of the spheres (1992), the sunk window (1992), play diners (1998) and the Biombo and the fruits (2001). In 1985 he won the Fuentes Mares award awarded by the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez. Forjator of a personal language that achieves a strange combination of poetry and violence, Gardea creates a literary universe where the rhythm of things allows the characters to maintain their despair at bay moved by the memories that the wind pushes.

Jesús Gardea was discovered as a writer by the poet Jaime Labastida Ochoa, within the meeting of writers in Ciudad Juárez Labastida leads him to publish " on Friday of Lautaro " (1979) in the 21st century publishing house.

[ required quote > (Tales, 1980), a work that makes him deserving of the Xavier Villaurrutia award, a fact that makes him the second Chihuahuan to receive it. He also obtains the José Fuentes Mares Award from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, in its first edition (1985), which he rejected.

Gardea was also a fellow of the National System of Art Creators of the CNCA, and received a national tribute for his work in December 1998. He published in more than ten anthologies and his works were translated into English, French and Polish. At the time of Gardea, he had two books about to be published: The screen and the fruits and House of Anfibia , in addition to a novel manuscript.

His work addresses the story, the novel and poetry, genre - this last one - in which he only published song for a single rope , a book in which he develops “a minimalist poetry, of verses Brief but intense, sometimes lovingly erotic. ”

Dentist by profession, leave this career to devote himself to the trade of writer, an area in which he obtained a resounding success, despite having begun to write and publish at the age of 40. Professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Jesús Gardea participates twice within the " Chihuahuan writers assemblies " Organized since 1982 by Mario Arra, who proposes it as a candidate in the area of literature to receive the Tomás Valles Vivar Prize in its first edition; Award that the philosopher Federico Ferro Gay will win on that occasion.

Gardea belongs to the outstanding group of Chihuahuan artists born in the decade of the 40's (it is included even if it was born in 1939). The group is formed by writers such as Victor Hugo Rascón Banda, Ignacio Solares, Joaquín Armando Chacón, José Vicente Anaya and Carlos Montemayor, and as sculptor Sebastián; who moved their residence to Mexico City to seek fame and fortune. Jesús Gardea remained firm in his conviction to continue living in his native state.

In popular culture

The British band Tindersticks recorded in 1995 the song " the devil in the eye ", title taken from Gardea's novel. Dickon Fanchliffe (then a group member) was preparing his thesis for the King ' S College about the work of this Mexican author. He finished his thesis in 1998, with the title Histors of Luminous Motion: The Space, Language and Light of Jesus Gardea ' S ' Placeres ' .

Works

Story

• Fridays of Lautaro (1979)
• September and the other days (Premio Xavier Villarrutia, 1980)
• Somber alba (1985)
• The Lights of the World (1986)
• Hard to catch (1995)
• Where the gymnast (1999)

Poetry

• Songs for a single string (1982)

Novel

• The sun you're looking at (1981)
• The song of the dead mules (1981)
• The Tornavoz (1983)
• Dream of war (1984)
• Musicians and fire (1985)
• Baseball (1985)
• The devil in the eye (1989)
• Water in the areas (1992)
• The window sunk (1992)
• The tree when turned off (1997)
• Play the diners (1998)
• The biombo and the fruits (2001)
• Shadow troop (2003)

Anthology

• Tale meeting (1999)