José Ricardo Mazó (Pilar, 1927- Asunción, 1987), the
Paraguay
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an poet, was born in
Pilar, in the department of
Ñeembucú
Ñeembucú (; Paraguayan GuaranÃ, GuaranÃ: ''Ñe'ẽmbuku'') is a Departments of Paraguay, department located in the south of the Eastern Region of Paraguay. The capital is Pilar, Paraguay, Pilar. The department is almost entirely rural, and ...
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. He was a member of the Literary Academy of the
College of San Joséand of the Paraguayan Academia Universitaria. After completing his studies in San José, he studied in the
University of Texas at Austin
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and subsequently worked as an Engineer and Geologist.
He is regarded as one of the ''Promoción del 50'', a group of 1950s poets, mainly from the Academia Universitaria and the Faculty of Philosophy in Asunción who wrote socially engaged poetry during
Alfredo Stroessner
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan politician, army general and Military dictatorship, military dictator who ruled as the 42nd president of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow in 19 ...
's dictatorship (1954–1989). His poem
ERA EL MES DE NIZAM... should perhaps be read in that light.
He translated the lecture notes on
Aesthetics
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that
Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...
had distributed in the
University of Berlin
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The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...
into Spanish as ''Introducción a la Estética de G.W:F. Hegel''.
Poetic work
''Briznas: suerte de antologÃa'' (Scraps: A kind of Anthology), 1982, gathers together 73 poems written between the years 1940 and 1980. The book is organised into five parts:
# First poems;
# Empty hours;
# Return;
# The second solitude;
# Open bastion.
Solitude, absence, nostalgia, distance, boredom ... as well as a constant search for the self, a recurrent encounter with time, and fixation on an unceasing memory, are the dominant motifs of his poetry. In several of his poems, the poetic voice alludes to a mysterious angel.
Bibliography
* ''Briznas: suerte de antologÃa'', Asunción: Perch, 1982. (Poetry, 2). 111 pp.
* ''PoesÃa 1'', Asunción: Academia Universitaria, 1953.
collaboration.* ''Introducción a la estética / Georg Wihelm Friedrich Hegel'', Ricardo Mazó (trans), Barcelona : PenÃnsula, (1971, 2001),
References
* ''PoesÃa del Paraguay: antologÃa desde sus orÃgenes'', Aramà (ed.), 2001, pp. 555–559 (an anthology of Paraguayan Poetry)
* ''Breve diccionario de la literatura paraguaya'', Méndez-Faith, Teresa, Asunción: El Lector, (Colección Literaria, 22; Biblioteca Paraguaya), 1996, p. 166, (a brief dictionary of Paraguayan Literature)
External links
A brief dictionary of Paraguayan Literature (in Spanish)
1927 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Paraguayan poets
Paraguayan male poets
People from Ñeembucú Department
20th-century Paraguayan male writers
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Paraguayan expatriates in the United States
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