Diego Martínez Torrón

Diego Martínez Torrón (born October 1950) is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Córdoba, Spain, and a writer, author of essays, poetry and novels. He has been a speaker at many of the major universities in Europe and the United States. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish literature he has published numerous books on Spanish Romanticism, with interpretive contributions and unpublished texts. He has edited the most faithful edition of the complete works of authors such as José de Espronceda and the Duque de Rivas. He has also written about Lista and Quintana and the work of Spanish progressive liberals from the early nineteenth century to the end of the period of Romanticism. He has studied the poetic thought of Juan Ramón, Octavio Paz and José Bergamin. He has also dedicated numerous studies to the works of Cervantes. He has studied the narrative of Álvaro Cunqueiro, Juan Benet, Azorín and has a book pending publication about Valle-Inclán. His concept of literary methodology stems from a new, non-Marxist approach to the binomial ideology and literature.

His concept of poetic works is based on what he has called the aesthetic of simplicity: he seeks the emotion of the reader with a simple yet refined style, full of lyricism and thought, which transparently offers an almost philosophical worldview, on topics such as love, the issue most frequently addressed in his work, death and the concept of art itself, poetic creation and beauty. In his recent novel Éxito (Success) he offers a testimony to the vision of his generation from the beginning of counter-culture to the present day. Major Spanish writers have provided forwards for his creative works, which have been included in several Spanish and American anthologies. His poetic works have been translated into Italian and his narrative to English.

Bibliography

Research publications

• Variables poéticas de Octavio Paz, Madrid, Hiperión, 1979
• La fantasía lúdica de Alvaro Cunqueiro, prologue by Álvaro Cunqueiro, Sada (Coruña), Ediciones del Castro, 1980.
• Estudios de literatura española, Barcelona, Anthropos, 1987
• Los liberales románticos españoles ante la descolonización americana (1808–1834), Madrid, Editorial Mapfre, 1992, (Colecciones Mapfre 1492)
• El alba del romanticismo español. Con inéditos recopilados de Lista, Quintana y Gallego, Sevilla, Alfar/Universidad de Córdoba, 1993 (Alfar Universidad, 79)
• Ideología y literatura en Alberto Lista, Sevilla, Alfar, 1993 (Alfar Universidad, 78)
• Manuel José Quintana y el espíritu de la España liberal. Con textos desconocidos., Sevilla, Alfar, 1995 (Alfar Universidad, 83)
• O outro rostro de Alvaro Cunqueiro, Santiago de Compostela, Fundación A. Brañas, 1996 (Col. Autoidentificación nº 13), 1996
• El sueño de José Bergamín, Sevilla, Alfar, 1997 (Alfar Universidad, 89)
• La sombra de Espronceda, Badajoz, Editora Regional de Extremadura, 1999
• Posibles inéditos de Quevedo a la muerte de Osuna, Pamplona, Ediciones de la Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA), 2003
• DMT (ed.), Sobre Cervantes, Alcalá de Henares, Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, 2003
• DMT (ed.), Cervantes y el ámbito anglosajón, Madrid, Sial, 2005 (Trivium, Biblioteca de Textos de Ensayo, 10)
• DMT (ed.), Con Azorín. Estudios sobre José Martínez Ruiz, Madrid, Sial, 2005 (Trivium, Biblioteca de Textos de Ensayo, 11)
• DMT (ed.): Juan Ramón, Alberti: dos poetas líricos, Kassel, Edition Reichenberger, 2006
• ‘Doña Blanca de Castilla’, tragedia inédita del duque de Rivas, Pamplona, EUNSA, 2007 (Col. Anejos de Rilce, 54)
• DMT (ed.), Poetas románticas españolas (Antología), Madrid, Sial, 2008
• DMT (ed.), El universo literario del duque de Rivas, Sevilla, Alfar, 2009.

Edited classics

• O. Paz, La búsqueda del comienzo. Escritos sobre surrealismo, Madrid, Fundamentos, 1980
• Juan Benet, Un viaje de invierno, Madrid, Cátedra, 1980 (Letras Hispánicas); second edition, 1989; third edition revised, 1998
• Jorge Guillén, El argumento de la obra, Madrid, Taurus, 1985 (Temas de España)
• Alvaro Cunqueiro, Las mocedades de Ulises, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1985 (Austral, 1652)
• José Bergamín, Antología poética, Madrid, Castalia, 1997 (Clásicos Castalia, 227)
• Juan Ramón Jiménez, La muerte, (unpublished book of JR), Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1999, (Biblioteca Breve)
• Juan Ramón Jiménez, Unidad, (unpublished book of JR), Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1999, (Biblioteca Breve)
• Juan Ramón Jiménez, La realidad invisible, (with unpublisheds poems), Madrid, Cátedra, 1999 (Letras Hispánicas), second edition revised, Madrid, Cátedra, 2010 (Letras Hispánicas, 495))
• José de Espronceda, Obras completas, Madrid, Cátedra, 2006 (Bibliotheca Áurea) –with almost 1400 notes-
• Duque de Rivas, Ángel de Saavedra, Poesías completas, Sevilla, Alfar, 2012 (Alfar Universidad, 186), an annotated edition.

Translations

• Francis Ponge, Piezas, Madrid, Visor, 1985 (Col. Visor de Poesía)

Creative works

Poetry

• Guiños (Poemas 1974-76), Barcelona, Ámbito Literario, 1981 (Finalista Premio Ámbito Literario 1980)
• Alrededor de ti, (prologue by Jorge Guillén), Barcelona, Anthropos, 1984 (Ámbitos Literarios/Poesía)
• Las cuatro estaciones y el amor, Córdoba, Diputación Provincial, 1990 (Col. Polifemo) (finalista ex-aequo del Premio Devenir de Poesía 1986)
• La otra tierra (prologue by Luis Alberto de Cuenca, with four photographs of Ouka-Lele), Murcia, Universidad de Murcia, 1990
• Una folla di voci (Una multitud de voces), (bilingual Spanish/Italian anthology selected and translated by Michele Coco), Bari, Levante Editori, 1992 (I Quaderni di Abanico, 11)
• Tres pájaros en primavera, (prologue by Angel Crespo, fotos de Ouka-Lele), Madrid, Ediciones Libertarias (Huerga y Fierro Editores), 1995
• El palacio de la sabiduría, (prologue by Jaime Siles), Madrid, Sial Ediciones, 2001
• Mirar la luna. Poesía completa (1974–2002), Madrid, Sial/Fugger Libros, 2003
• Adagio al sol, Sevilla, Ed. Algaida, 2007
• Fantasmas en la niebla, (prologue by Gustavo Martín Garzo), Sevilla, Algaida, 2009.

Narrative

• Los sueños del búho, (Pórtico de Pere Gimferrer, dibujos de Ouka-Lele), Madrid, Huerga y Fierro Editores, 1998 (Narrativa, 143).
• Los dioses de la Noche, (prologue by Leonardo Romero Tobar), Madrid, Sial, 2004
• Éxito, (prologue by José María Merino), Sevilla, Algaida, 2013.