El poeta-artista como redentor social en los cuentos de <i>Azul</i>...

Abstract

The publication of Azul... resulted in the onset of an intense and lasting criticism by numerous literary critics based on the apparent lack of social compromise by the author. As result, Ruben Darío began to include a clear and distinctive social component in his later work. Nevertheless, it is important to notice that such criticism was mainly based on the poetic component of Azul..., ignoring the short stories. This article provides a reevaluation based on the prose component of Azul... The analysis discovers Darío's organized effort to present, as part of the modernist postulates, the poet as social redemptor.