Arqueles Vela (
Guatemala/
Tapachula
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1899 –
Mexico City
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1977) was a
Mexican writer,
journalist
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and teacher, of Guatemalan origin. He was one of the major members of the
Stridentism movement and author of ''La señorita Etcétera'' (1922), one of the earliest avant-garde narrative works.
He used to publish some articles with the pen-name "Silvestre Paradox" in the Mexican newspaper "''El Universal Ilustrado''", even though other journalists published with that pen-name too.
Works
Poetry and narrative
*''El sendero gris y otros poemas inútiles'' (1920)
*''La señorita Etcétera'' (1922)
*''El café de nadie'' (1926)
*''Un crimen provisional'' (1926)
*''El intrasferible'' (1927; published again in 1977)
*''El viaje redondo'' (1929)
*''Cantata a las muchachas fuertes y alegres de México'' (1940)
*''Cuentos del día y de la noche'' (1945)
*''La volanda'' (1956)
*''El picaflor'' (1961)
*''Luzbel'' (1966)
Essays
*''Introducción, organización, interpretación y dirección del teatro de muñecos, Historia materialista del arte'' (1936).
*''Evolución histórica de la literatura universal'' (1941).
*''El arte y la estética'' (1945).
*''Teoría literaria del modernismo'' (1949).
*''Elementos del lenguaje y didáctica de la expresión'' (1953).
*''Fundamentos de la literatura mexicana'' (1953).
*''Análisis de la expresión literaria'' (1965).
References
*''This article was initially translated from the Spanish Wikipedia.''
Mexican male writers
Mexican journalists
Male journalists
Guatemalan male writers
Guatemalan journalists
1899 births
1977 deaths
Mexican people of Guatemalan descent
20th-century journalists
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