Jorge Mateo Cuesta Porte-Petit (b.

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, September 23, 1903 – d. Tlalpan, August 13, 1942) was a Mexican chemist, writer and editor.

Biography

Cuesta attended school in his hometown, before he did his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of

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(UNAM) until 1925. In 1924 he published his first short story in a magazine. When he finished his studies, he moved back to Córdoba for a short time. In 1927, back in

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, he met his later wife Guadalupe Marín, who was married to

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at that time. In 1928 he travelled to Europe, where he met Octavio G. Barreda, Carlos Luquín, André Breton, Carlos Pellicer,

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and Agustín Lazo. Back in Mexico, Marín and Cuesta married in November 9, 1928. He was co-founder of the Los Contemporáneos group. Cuesta, who worked for several magazines, founded his own magazine in 1932, named ''Examen''.''Poetas Poemas - Jorge Cuesta''
(Spanish), In 1930 his only son was born, Lucio Antonio Cuesta Marín. In 1933, he divorced from Marín. Following a fit of madness that included an act of self-castration, Cuesta was hospitalized and would later hang himself using the bedsheets from the sanitarium where he was interred.Jeremy Portland review of ''In Spite of the Dark Silence'' by Jorge Volpi in ''Goodreads
' He is buried in the

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, Mexico City.''Jorge Cuesta''
www.findagrave.com.

Selected works / publications

* ''Canto a un Dios Mineral'' * ''A Pesar del Oscuro Silencio'' * ''La Calle del Amor'' * ''Poeta, Funde tu Campana'' * ''El plan contra Calles'', 1934 * ''Poesía de Jorge Cuesta'', 1942 * ''Crítica de la reforma del Artículo Tercero'', (1943

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuesta, Jorge Mexican chemists 20th-century Mexican writers 20th-century male writers Writers from Veracruz National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Suicides by hanging in Mexico Artists who committed suicide 1903 births 1942 suicides Print editors People from Córdoba, Veracruz Mexican literary critics 1942 deaths Castrated people