(1877 - 1971)
Botánico. Destacado científico que dedicó su vida a estudiar e interpretar la naturaleza cubana y a buscar nuevas fuentes de riquezas naturales; su mayor aporte a la ciencia lo constituyen sus estudios acerca de las plantas medicinales.
Social Sciences and Humanities
2002 | An essential Marti’s project: The Golden Age
Main executives entity: Center for the Studies of Martí
Main author: Salvador Arias García.
Summary:

The research is aimed to:

  • a) Analyze Marti’s strategy as editor, writer and man, when conceiving and making his magazine in specific historical-social circumstances.
  • b) Be examined as a literary body in which we found the most representative genres of Latin American literature from the late 19th century.
  • c) Demonstrate, through literal analysis, that poetic and stylistic solutions respond to the need of building a proper language to express modern world, as well as an ethical and ideological education program for Latin American children.
  • d) Confirm, through the study of literary contents and topѬcs, the connections of this work with the rest of modernist literature of these years.

The result from this research has two parts: one is made by a socio-historical and cultural study of conditions in which this magazine is produced, with a detailed reflection about society, history and author; and from that interrelation, it is formed the circumstance in which Marti creates this work. The other one is about reading, interpretating and assessing seven representative texts in the magazine.

It is ratified, in this way, that The Golden Age constitutes a synthetic and highly valuable example of José Martí's ideological and stylistic capacities, stressed by the fact of writing for men from the future. It is one of the most representative and exemplary texts of all Latin American modernism, which validity is increased with the new century. The reached results, starting from a rigorous and deep study of Marti's work, are, in particular, novel to our culture; and contribute, in general, to the battle of ideas that is developed in the country. It has received references from several prestigious national and international figures, among which Cintio Vitier stands out.