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Amado Ruiz de Nervo y Ordaz (Tepic, Military District of Tepic, Jalisco, Restored Republic, August 27, 1870-Montevideo, Uruguay, May 24, 1919), better known Like Amado Nervo, he was a Mexican poet and writer, belonging to the modernist movement. He was a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, but could not be a member of the number because he lived abroad.

Poet (author, also, of novels and essays) who is usually classified as modernist due to his style and his time, a classification frequently qualified as incompatible with the mysticism and sadness of the poet, especially in his latest works, resorting then to to more complex combinations of words ending in "-ism", which tries to reflect religious feeling and melancholy, progressive abandonment of technical tricks, even rhyme, and elegance in rhythms and cadences as attributes of Nervo's style.

The sonorous name of Amado Nervo, often taken by a pseudonym, was actually the one he was given at birth, following his father's decision to simplify his real last name, Ruiz de Nervo. He himself once joked about the influence of such a name for a poet on his success.

Biography

Early Life

When he was nine years old, his father died, leaving the family in a compromised financial situation. Two other deaths will mark his life: the suicide of his brother Luis de él, who was also a poet, and the return "to the source of grace from which he came" of his beloved Ana Cecilia Luisa Daillez.

He completed his first studies in Michoacán; first in Jacona, at the Colegio de San Luis Gonzaga, where he stood out for his intelligence and compliance, then in Zamora he studied science, philosophy and the first year of law at the Seminary even though he quickly abandoned his studies in 1891. Economic emergencies made him give up and forced him to accept a desk job in Tepic and later move to Mazatlán, where he alternated his duties in a lawyer's office with his articles for El Correo de la Tarde .

Collaboration in magazines and newspapers

In 1894 he continued his career in Mexico City where he began to be known and appreciated and collaborated in the Revista Azul of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera. He related to Mexican writers such as Luis G. Urbina, Tablada, Dávalos, and with some foreigners such as Rubén Darío, José Santos Chocano and Campoamor. He was part of the editorial staff of El Universal , El Nacional and El Mundo . In the latter, his collaboration was made official by including him in the newspaper's directory until June 27, 1897. As of October 24 of that year, El Mundo launched a humorous supplement called El Mundo Comic and Amado Nervo assumes its direction. On January 2, 1898, the publication separated from El Mundo and became independent, in addition to changing its name to El Cómico. Nervo became famous after the publication of his novel El bachiller (1895) and his poetry books Perlas negras and Místicas (1898).. Between 1898 and 1900 he founded and directed with Jesús Valenzuela the Revista Moderna , successor to the Revista Azul .

Stay in Europe

In 1900 he traveled to Paris, sent as a correspondent for the newspaper El Imparcial to the Universal Exposition. There he met Catulle Mendès, Jean Moréas, Guillermo Valencia, Leopoldo Lugones, Oscar Wilde and again with Rubén Darío, with whom he established a fraternal friendship, but he was possibly more influenced by his first meeting with Ana Cecilia Luisa Daillez, the great love of his life, whose premature death in 1912 inspired the poems of The Immobile Beloved, published posthumously in 1922. During his stay in Europe he had the opportunity to travel around several countries and write Poems (1901), The Exodus and the Flowers of the Road, Heroic Lyre (1902), The Voices (1904) and Interior Gardens (1905). He once again dealt with poverty and loneliness after El Imparcial canceled his correspondent's office and he had to rely on his own strength to be able to live.

Last years

Sepulchre of Amado Nervo at the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres (Mexico).

On his return to Mexico he was already an established poet. He briefly attended teaching and bureaucratic positions: he won a position as a Spanish language teacher at the National Preparatory School, a level equivalent to that of high school in other countries. Around 1905 he entered the diplomatic career as secretary of the Mexican embassy in Madrid, where he became friends with the director of the magazine Ateneo , Mariano Miguel de Val, and wrote articles for this and many others. Spanish and Latin American newspapers and magazines. In addition to honorably fulfilling his diplomatic mission, he increased his bibliography, among other books, with the study Juana de Asbaje (1910); of poetry: In a low voice (1909), Serenity (1915), Elevation (1917) and The motionless beloved that it was posthumous; in prose Them, (1912), My philosophies and Plenitude (1918). In 1914 the Revolution interrupted the diplomatic service and imposed its cessation, which made him approach poverty again; He returned to the country in 1918 and was once again recognized as a diplomat, for which reason he was sent as plenipotentiary minister to Argentina and Uruguay shortly after. He arrived in Buenos Aires in March. It is said that a fortuitous situation prevented a meeting in this city between him and the Argentine composer Ernesto Drangosch (1882-1925), who appreciated each other beforehand without knowing each other. The fact is that Drangosch set four of Nervo's poems to music: In peace, Amemos, Ofertorio and Un signo.

Nervo died of uremia in Montevideo on May 24, 1919, at the age of 48; he represented his country at the Pan-American Children's Congress, and was in the company of his friend Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, who assisted him in his last moments.

His body was transferred to Mexico by the cruiser Uruguay of the Uruguayan Navy, escorted by the Argentine cruiser 9 de Julio. Upon arrival in Havana, the ships Zaragoza and Cuba joined this international squadron. In Mexico, an unprecedented tribute was paid to him, by order of then President Venustiano Carranza.

Works

• Complete worksed. by Francisco González Guerrero and Alfonso Méndez Plancarte, Madrid: Aguilar, 1962, 2 vols.

Novels

• Pascual Aguilera (1892 and 1899)
• High school (1895).
• The Donor of Souls (1899).
• The disinterested devil (1916).

Poetry

• Complete poetry (Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 1935)
• Black pearls (1898).
• Mistics (1898).
• Poems (published in Paris in 1901).
• The sister water (1901)
• The Exodus and the Flowers of the Way (1902), verse and prose.
• Lira heroica (1902).
• The voices (1904).
• The interior gardens (1905).
• Lower voice (1909).
• Serenity (1912).
• In Peace (1915), one of his best-known poems.
• Elevation (1916).
• Plenitude (1918), prose and verse.
• The pond of the lotus (1919).
• The divine archer (1920).
• The beloved immobile (1920).
• Tomorrow of the poet (1938).
• The last moon (1943)

Stories

• Souls that pass (1916).
• They, prose. (1915)
• Plenitude, prosa (1918).
• Mysterious tales (1921).
• The balconies, story and chronic.

Essay

• The Exodus and the Flowers of the Way (1902), chronic.
• Juana de Asbaje, essay, biography of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1910).
• My philosophiesrehearsal (1912).
• About the waressay (1921)

Theater

• Consuelo, zarzuela placed in musician metro by Antonio Cuyàs and premiered at the Teatro Principal de la ciudad de México in 1899.

In cinematography

The poet's life was made into a film by Argentine director Luis Bayón Herrera in 1945 in La amada immóvil, starring Santiago Gómez Cou and Homero Cárpena, among others.

Amado Nervo Bibliography

• Nervo, Amado (2006): Monday of Mazatlan: Chronicles 1892-1894, Works by Amado Nervo; edition, study and notes by Gustavo Jiménez Aguirre. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006. ISBN 978-970-32-2295-1. Consultation on 15 November 2009.