Ignacio Rodríguez Galván (1816-1842) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, and politician; he also served as a journalist. His literary work was framed within the current of romanticism, and he has been considered one of the most outstanding intellectuals of the nineteenth century.
The writer spanned various genres of literature, including: narrative, poetry, and theater. His work was characterized by having a simple and expressive language. Many of his texts had as their setting the 16th century, a time when the Spanish colonized America.
Despite its short existence, Rodríguez Galván was able to publish several of his works, among which the following stand out: The drop of bile, The hearer's daughter, The procession, The viceroy's private Y After a bad one hundred come to us. These books have deep content and demonstrate excellent command of letters and language..
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Ignacio Rodríguez Galván was born on March 12, 1816 in the town of Tizayuca in the state of Hidalgo. Although the data on his family nucleus are scarce, it is known that he came from a family with limited economic resources; his parents dedicated themselves to the work of the fields.
The writer was largely self-taught, that is, the knowledge he acquired in his childhood and adolescence was by his own effort, perhaps because his parents lacked the possibilities to provide him with studies. Ignacio Rodríguez Galván managed to learn languages such as: Italian, French and Latin.
From a young age he had to work to help his family, so he got a job in a bookstore as a salesman. Later he was able to study at the renowned Academy of San Juan de Letrán, where he made friends with several intellectuals, such as: Guillermo Prieto and Fernando Calderón.
Rodríguez Galván began to materialize his passion for writing even before reaching twenty years of age. In 1836 he published his first novel entitled: The hearer's daughter, around that time he also created the diary New Year and became boss in the Mexican Ladies Calendar.
Then the writer began to work as a columnist in the literature segment of the Government newspaper. His second narrative work, Manolito the pisaverde, came to light in 1837, at which time he began to consolidate his career. The writer also earned good reviews with his plays.
The life of the Mexican playwright was short, he was in full youth when his existence came to an end. Ignacio Rodríguez Galván died on July 25, 1842 in Havana, Cuba, due to yellow fever, when he was just twenty-six years old..
The writings of Ignacio Rodríguez Galván were characterized by having a simple, precise and well structured language, with the constant use of exclamatory and interrogative expressions. There were in many of his poems feelings of loneliness, hopelessness, religion, love and passion.
In the case of novels, the writer developed a short narrative, the content of which had certain social and political features of the Mexico of his time. In addition, the presence of events related to the arrival and conquest of the Spanish to the New World was common in his theater..
- Guatimoc's prophecy.
- Upon the death of a friend.
- To the dance of the president.
- Goodbye, oh my homeland.
- The drop of gall.
- Innocence.
- A crime.
- The vulture.
- The hearer's daughter (1836).
- Manolito the pisaverde (1837).
- The visitor (1838).
- The procession (1838).
- The secret (1840).
- The chapel.
- Muñoz, visitor to Mexico.
- The Viceroy's Private.
- After a bad one hundred come to us (1840).
"Glad the sailor
in a slow voice sing,
and the anchor already lifts
with strange rumor.
From the chain to the noise
unholy sorrow shakes me.
Goodbye, oh my homeland,
goodbye land of love.
... Sitting in the stern
I contemplate the immense sea,
and in my misery I think
and in my stubborn pain.
... I think that in your enclosure
there are those who sigh for me,
who looks to the east
looking for her lover.
My chest deep groans
trust the breeze.
Goodbye, oh my homeland,
goodbye, land of love ".
Lord! Lord, your anger overwhelms me!
Why is the cup of martyrdom filled?
My heart is tired of sorrows.
Enough, enough, Lord.
It boils on fire by the Cuban sun
my whole blood and exhaustion I expire,
I look for the night, and in the bed I breathe
devouring fire.
… I know, Lord, that you exist, that you are just,
that the book of destiny is in your sight,
and that you watch the triumphant path
of sinful man.
It was your voice that thundered in the sea
when the sun goes down in the west,
when a wave rolled sadly
with strange roar ... ".
"Dance while he cries
the aching town,
dance until dawn
to the beat of the moan
that at your door the orphan
hungry will launch.
Dance! Dance!
Nakedness, ignorance
to our offspring an affront,
pride and arrogance
haughtily flaunts,
and brutalizes his spirit
awkward immorality.
Dance! Dance!
Schools flood
ignorant and futile mob
that founds his greatness
in forbidding us what is useful,
and leads us hypocrite
down the path of evil
Dance! Dance!
… Your singer as long as
my chest swollen with fear
turns into black cloak
in tears undone
and prepare from Mexico
the funeral hymn.
Dance! Dance! ".
“… But he had barely walked a short space, when the indefatigable singer continued his bolero:
'There are subjects in Mexico
that they are thieves;
and, they walk freely ...
-if they are hearers'.
The hearer felt a general disturbance throughout his body; he did not understand a single word of what the man was singing; but he could not suffer the mockery that was made disobeying his orders ...
-How scary dad! -said the young woman-: Why shouldn't we bring the car?
-For you, who wanted to go on foot. But I am to blame for getting you out: the woman must always be locked up in her house.
-But… ".
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