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Article: About my writing on Marti's work.(Jose Marti)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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AS FOR SO MANY OTHERS, Jose Marti (1853-95) is my life's main figure. I will profit from this exceptional occasion to offer a resume of some of the many comments I have written about his work, and to update that resume.
The first time I aspired to consider the matter in depth was in an essay written between 1963 and 1964, published the next year with the title "Marti in His (Third) World." (1) After almost four decades adding and subtracting from it, it remains the fundamental source of my further studies on Marti. The title itself, which became "Introduction to Jose Marti," is among the few reductions, some of which today seem to me incomprehensible; I felt ...