José Enrique Rodó

José Enrique Camilo Rodó Piñeyro (15 July 1871 – 1 May 1917) was a Uruguayan essayist. He cultivated an epistolary relationship with important Hispanic thinkers of that time, Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) in Spain, José de la Riva-Agüero in Peru, and, most importantly, with Rubén Darío, the most influential Latin American poet to date, the founder of ''modernismo''. As a result of his refined prose style and the ''modernista'' ideology he pushed, Rodó is today considered the preeminent theorist of the ''modernista'' school of literature.

Rodó is best known for his essay ''Ariel'' (1900), drawn from ''The Tempest'', in which Ariel represents the positive, and Caliban represents the negative tendencies in human nature, and they debate the future course of history, in what Rodó intended to be a secular sermon to Latin American youth, championing the cause of the classical western tradition. What Rodó was afraid of was the debilitating effect of working individuals' limited existence doing the same work, over and over again, never having time to develop the spirit. Among Uruguayan youth, however, he is best known for Parque Rodó, the Montevideo park named after him.

For more than a century now, ''Ariel'' has been an extraordinarily influential and enduring essay in Latin American letters and culture due to a combination of specific cultural, literary, and political circumstances, as well as for its adherence to Classical values and its denunciation of utilitarianism and what Rodó called "''nordomanía''" (explained below). Provided by Wikipedia
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    Ariel, motivos de Proteo / by Rodó, José Enrique

    Published 1985
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    Ariel by Rodó, José Enrique

    Published 2000
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    La tradición intelectual Argentina / by Rodó, José Enrique

    Published 1939
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    Artigas / by Rodó, José Enrique

    Published 1950
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    Motifs de protée / by Rodo, José Enrique

    Published 1966
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    Hombres de América / by Rodó, José Enrique

    Published 1931
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    El mirador de próspero / by Rodó, José Enrique

    Published 1913
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    Ariel / by Rodo, Jose Enrique

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    Ariel / by Rodo, Jose Enrique

    Published 1963
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    Hombres de america - discursos parlamentarios / by Rodo, Jose Enrique

    Published 1920
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    Obras completas (jose enrique rodo) / by Rodo, Jose Enrique

    Published 1967
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    Rubén Darío, su personalidad literaria, su última obra / by Rodo, Jose Enrique

    Published 1899
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    Motivos de proteo / by Rodo, José Enrique

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    Obras completas / by Rodó, José Enrique, 1872-1917

    Published 1967
    Book
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    Obras completas / by Rodó, José Enrique, 1872-1917

    Published 1948
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    La tradición intelectual argentina / by Rodó, José Enrique, 1872-1917

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    Parábolas / by Rodó, José Enrique, 1872-1917

    Published 1965
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    Motivos de Proteo : estudios críticos de Rubén Darío y Gómez Restrepo / by Rodó, José Enrique, 1872-1917

    Published 1953
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    Ariel / by Rodó, José Enrique, 1872-1917

    Published 1966
    Texto completo ed. 1976. [Consulta: 2020/07/27]
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