Name Jose Agustin | Role Novelist | |
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Education National Autonomous University of Mexico Movies The Heist, City of the Blind, 5 of Chocolate and 1 of Strawberry, Love Around the Corner Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America & Caribbean Nominations Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Cinema Books La Tumba, LA Panza Del Tepozteco, Vida Con Mi Viuda, Ciudades Desiertas, De Perfil Similar People Gustavo Sainz, Parmenides Garcia Saldana, Jose Revueltas, Rene Aviles Fabila, Carlos Monsivais | ||
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José Agustín Ramírez Gómez (born August 19, 1944, Acapulco) is a Mexican novelist.
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Career
Agustin's first novel, La Tumba (The Tomb), was the brief but provocative story of a Mexican upperclass teen, deemed indecent by the public but gathering praise from older writers. This and his most famous work, De Perfil (Profile view), a fast and detailed view of three days in the main character's life, show stylistic similarities to James Joyce's work, especially A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
He was considered a member of the so-called Onda literature, onda (wave) being slang for current and fashionable views in the eyes of young people.
A common technique in his work is mixing character's speech with narrative, without making any kind of distinction (free indirect discourse). Thus the reader finds a long dialogue written in a single sentence, and is expected to realize which character is speaking as he reads the words. He also makes use of the stream of consciousness technique.
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