Díaz, José Pedro (1921–2006)
Díaz, José Pedro (1921–2006)
José Pedro Díaz (b. 1921, d. 3 July 2006), Uruguayan writer, literary critic, and educator. Formerly Uruguay's foremost critic of French literature, Díaz wrote about French as well as Uruguayan literature in the weekly Correo de los viernes. He was also one of Uruguay's most important novelists. His Los fuegos de San Telmo (1964), one of the best novels produced by the Uruguayan Generation of 1945, investigates the Italian origins of Uruguay's majority population. Partes de naufragios (1969) focuses on the complacent life in Montevideo of the 1930s and 1940s, a view that assumes ironic dimensions, given the productive and moral crisis affecting the country at the time of its publication. Also important are Díaz's conceptual essays treating the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1953), the Uruguayan fantasy writer Felisberto Hernández, and the poet Delmira Agustini.
See alsoLiterature: Spanish America.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fernando Ainsa Amigues, Tiempo reconquistado: Siete ensayos sobre literatura uruguaya (1977).
Marie Johnston Peck, Mythologizing Uruguayan Reality (1985).
Additional Bibliography
Sosnowski, Saúl, and Louise B. Popkin. Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.
Peck, Marie J. "José Pedro Díaz y Hemingway: una mitología comparada." Texto Crítico 12: 34-35 (Jan.-Dec. 1986): 189-203.
William H. Katra