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Roque Dalton

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Biography

Name: Roque Dalton
Birth Date: May 14, 1935
Death Date: May 10, 1975
Nationality: Salvadoran
Gender: Male

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Biography of Roque Dalton
4,446 words, approx. 15 pages
Roque Dalton was born 14 May 1935 in San Salvador, El Salvador, and was killed by his own guerrilla group forty years later, also in the month of May. Despite the brevity of his life span, Dalton wrote more than fifteen books that transformed the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Roque Dalton Information
1,284 words, approx. 4 pages
Roque Dalton García (San Salvador, El Salvador, 14 May 1935 – Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, 10 May 1975) was a leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Roque Dalton with Mario Benedetti
4,789 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following interview, translated by Elsie B. Adams, Dalton discusses the relationship between ideology and literature, especially as it pertains to his work.
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Critical Essay by John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman
4,021 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following excerpt, Beverley and Zimmerman discuss the relation of Dalton's poetry to the historical events and the revolutionary movements of Central America in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
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Critical Review by Dale Jacobson
3,155 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following review, Jacobson compares Dalton to Latin American poets Otto René Castillo and César Vallejo, and, although recognizing Dalton's power as a poet, reproaches him for being “intellectual,” and for what he sees as Dalton's tendency to criticize “bourgeois” institutions using “bourgeois” standards and means, rather than writing “from the perspective of the working class.”
 


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