In the following essay, Lamb offers a brief overview of Villaurrutia's career, with emphasis on his dramatic work.
Xavier Villaurrutia appears in Mexican letters among the young men who form...
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In the following essay, Nugent draws parallels between the poetry of Villaurrutia and that of Charles Baudelaire, and points out areas of divergence as well.
The influence of various French author...
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In the following essay, Moreno chronicles Villaurrutia's career as a playwright, and examines some of his principal themes.
Rafael Solana, an outstanding contemporary Mexican dramatist and c...
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In the following essay, Moreno posits the coming of a social and cultural revolution in Latin America, and notes evidence of this shift in Villaurrutia's work.
The political and economic dev...
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In the following essay, Cypess closely examines the influence of French playwrights, particularly Henri-René Lenormand, on Villaurrutia's dramatic work.
Before Xavier Villaurrutia becam...
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In the following excerpt, Dauster chronicles the development of Villaurrutia's poetic style from Reflections and his earliest work to Song to Spring and the later poems.
Xavier Villaurrutia&...
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In the following essay, Cypess explores the classical roots of the imagery employed by Villaurrutia in his dramatic works.
As a dramatist, Xavier Villaurrutia has been classified universalista and ...
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In the following excerpt, Foster provides an overview of major and minor themes—including solitude, love, death, and others—in Villaurrutia's poetry.
General
Villaurrutia...
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In the following review of Nostalgia for Death and Hieroglyphs of Desire, Kirkpatrick offers an assessment of Villaurrutia's work nearly fifty years after his death.
The publication of Xavie...
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Mexican
writer
Sergio
Pitol
traveled to the Spanish town of
Alcalá de Henares
in 2006 to receive the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world. For...
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Critical Essay by Ruth S. Lamb
Pitol, Sergio
