Pacheco, José Emilio

Pacheco, José Emilio

▪ Mexican author
born June 30, 1939, Mexico City

      Mexican critic, novelist, short-story writer, translator, and poet. His poetry transmits his metaphysical concerns in brilliant images.

      Pacheco was educated at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He wrote several plays there that were never produced, and he edited the literary supplement of the review Estaciones (1957–58). His first published work, a collection of short stories—La sangre de Medusa (1958; “The Blood of Medusa”)—shows the influence of Jorge Luis Borges. Los elementos de la noche (1963; “The Elements of the Night”) is a collection of his poems published in periodicals from 1958 to 1962. The poems of El reposo del fuego (1966; “The Sleep of the Fire”) contemplate a world in disintegration, and the novel Morirás lejos (1967; “You Will Die Far Away”) documents the purges of Jews throughout history. No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (1969; Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes By, 1978) includes poems in which there is a nostalgic desire to relive the past, sometimes coupled with a fine sense of irony. The short stories in El principio del placer (1972; “The Pleasure Principle”) are united by the recurrent theme of anguish, reinforcing Pacheco's concept of history as a cyclical series of events that continue to haunt mankind. In the poems of Islas a la deriva (1976; “Islands Adrift”), Pacheco reinterprets history and mythology.

      Pacheco's later books include Ayer es nunca jamás (1978; “Yesterday Is Not Ever”), Desde entonces: poemas 1975–1978 (1980; “Since Then: Poems 1975–1978”), and Tarde o tempora (1980; “Sooner or Later”). His works in English include Tree Between Two Walls (1969), The Lost Homeland (1976), and Signals from the Flames (1980). He also edited La poesía mexicana de siglo XIX (1965) and Antología del Modernismo, 1884–1921 (1978).

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