Alfonso Toral Moreno (24 December 1914 – 3 January 2003) was a Mexican short story writer, essayist, and proofreader.
Alfonso Toral Moreno | |
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| Born | 24 December 1914 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Died | 3 January 2003 (aged 88) Guadalajara, Jalisco, México |
| Occupation(s) | short story writer, essayist, and proofreader |
| Spouse | Ana Rosa Ávila Zerecero |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | José de León Toral (cousin) |
Biography
editAlfonso Toral Moreno was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, on 24 December 1914.[1]
In the 1950s and 1960s he collaborated with stories and essays in the literary magazine Et Caetera, edited by Adalberto Navarro Sánchez.[2]
From 1980 to 1 March 1983, he was the editorial advisor to the bimonthly literature magazine Summa, directed by Arturo Rivas Sainz.[3]
According to literary critic and essayist Emmanuel Carballo, Toral's narrative texts were "well-intentioned and insipid."[4]
Fond of coffee and café, in the 1940s and 1950s he was a regular at Café Apolo, located at the corner of Avenida Juárez and Calle Galeana in downtown Guadalajara,[5] where he used to proofread galley proofs from the printing house of the University of Guadalajara. There he used to talk with Adalberto Navarro Sánchez and this one's wife, María Luisa Hidalgo, Alfredo Leal Cortés, Arturo Rivas Sainz, Salvador Echavarría, Ramón Rubín, Olivia Zúñiga, Lola Vidrio, and other writers.[6] Years later, after the Apolo was permanently closed, he used to go to the Café Treve and the Café Madoka, also downtown.[7]
In 1982, his wife Ana Rosa Ávila Zerecero (6 June 1929 – 7 October 1982) passed away.
Alfonso Toral was the first cousin of assassin José de León Toral, who on 17 July 1928, killed General Álvaro Obregón, re-elected president of Mexico.[8]
Tribute to Agustín Yáñez
editOn the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the writer from Guadalajara Agustín Yáñez (1904–1980), author and cultural promoter Martín Almádez organized a diachronic tribute collected on 29 March 2004 in a page from the Arts section of the Guadalajaran newspaper El Informador. Toral declared that his envy of Agustín Yáñez because the latter's novel, The Creation, did not come from himself feeling like a novelist, since he was not. "With my apodictic rancorous phrase that finished off the mending I did on the novel, I did not think of any competition; I confessed my collapse on the rocks of my own incompetence".[9]
Death
editAlfonso Toral Moreno died in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on 3 January 2003, at the age of 88.
Some of his works
edit- Uxor y otros uxores (short stories), Unidad Editorial (Uned) del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco, Guadalajara, 1983, 110 pp.[10]
- "Cafeína, nicotina y dialectina", essay included in Travesías de un café (Voyages of a café), Ediciones Treve, Guadalajara, 1990.[11]
- La novela y el cuento como problema metafísico (essay), 1960.[12]
- El toralazo, an extensive novel with autobiographical features, published in installments in the Guadalajaran daily newspaper El Occidental on Sundays from June 1990 to August 1991.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Villegas de Luna, Florita (2016). Jorge Souza Jauffred (ed.). "Alfonso Toral Moreno. Indagaciones sobre su vida y su obra", in: El fulgor y la flama. Estudios sobre escritores de Jalisco. Colección Humanidades (PDF) (in Spanish). Guadalajara: Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco. pp. 355–373. ISBN 9786077340799. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ Valderrama Villanueva, Pedro (2014). Et Caetera (1950–1988) (in Spanish). Guadalajara: Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco. ISBN 9786077340317. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México. Alfonso Toral Moreno" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ Carballo, Emmanuel, Ya nada es igual, memorias (1929–1953), Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco/Editorial Diana, Guadalajara/Ciudad de México, 1994, p. 276.
- ^ "El Café Apolo, Esq. Juárez y Galeana, p. 11, 8th. col". El Informador (in Spanish). 27 October 1948. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ Carballo, op. cit., p. 270.
- ^ "La otra historia de las letras tapatías. You will need to pay a visit to the digital newspaper library of El Informador. Once there, please look for the orange words "Navegación Directa", tap/click on them, then click on a square, left of "No Soy Un Robot", get approved at the Captcha challenge-response, and look for the date Año (Year) → 2002 █ Mes (Month) → 09 █ Día (Day) → 04; then, tap/click on page "29", and you may seek an orange rectangle which reads: "Ver PDF" (See PDF), click/tap on it". El Informador (in Spanish). 4 September 2002. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "El corazón, una cuestión toral". Artefacto. Revista de la escuela lacaniana de psicoanálisis, No. 9 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Perfiles de Agustín, el hombre homenaje. You will need to pay a visit to the digital newspaper library of El Informador. Once there, please look for the orange words "Navegación Directa", tap/click on them, then click on a square, left of "No Soy Un Robot", get approved at the Captcha challenge-response, and look for the date Año (Year) → 2004 █ Mes (Month) → 03 █ Día (Day) → 29; then, tap/click on page "42", and you may seek an orange rectangle which reads: "Ver PDF" (See PDF), click/tap on it". El Informador, p. 20-B (indexed as page "42" in the digital newspaper library) (in Spanish). 29 March 2004. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "Dirección General de Bibliotecas, Secretaría de Cultura, México" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Agenda de la cultura. Travesías de un café, pp. 4-5". El Informador (in Spanish). 7 October 1990. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ "La novela y el cuento como problema metafísico" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.