Diego Martínez Torrón


Diego Martínez Torrón is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish Literature at the [University of Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba (Spain)|University of Córdoba]. He has published books of literary criticism, poetry, and short fiction.

Career

Martínez Torrón is known for his scholarly work on José de Espronceda, having produced a critical edition of Espronceda's complete works. He has been a speaker at many of the major universities in Europe and the United States. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish literature he has published numerous books on Spanish Romanticism, with interpretive contributions and unpublished texts. He has edited the most faithful edition of the complete works of authors such as José de Espronceda and the Duque de Rivas. He has also written about Lista and Quintana and the work of Spanish progressive liberals from the early nineteenth century to the end of the period of Romanticism. He has studied the poetic thought of Juan Ramón, Octavio Paz and José Bergamin. He has also dedicated numerous studies to the works of Cervantes. He has studied the narrative of Álvaro Cunqueiro, Juan Benet, Azorín and has published the first annotated edition of El Ruedo Ibérico of Valle-Inclán. His concept of literary methodology stems from a new, non-Marxist approach to the binomial ideology and literature. He has edited Don Quixote, studying the thinking of Cervantes.

Poetry

His concept of poetic works is based on what he has called the aesthetic of simplicity: he seeks the emotion of the reader with a simple yet refined style, full of lyricism and thought, which transparently offers an almost philosophical worldview, on topics such as love, the issue most frequently addressed in his work, death and the concept of art itself, poetic creation and beauty. In his recent novel Éxito he offers a testimony to the vision of his generation from the beginning of counter-culture to the present day. Major Spanish writers have provided forwards for his creative works, which have been included in several Spanish and American anthologies. His poetic works have been translated into Italian and his narrative to English.
His double academic training as a philosopher and as a philologist, both degrees from the Complutense University of Madrid, have allowed him to develop, from the beginning of his career until today, a personal literary methodology, which has been explaining evolutionarily at the beginning of each of his books dealing with issues of thought and literature.
The most of his creative work and his philological essays are published for free at .

Research publications

La fantasía lúdica de Alvaro Cunqueiro, prólogo de Álvaro Cunqueiro, Sada, Ediciones del Castro, 1980.Estudios de literatura española, Barcelona, Anthropos, 1987Los liberales románticos españoles ante la descolonización americana , Madrid, Editorial Mapfre, 1992, El alba del romanticismo español. Con inéditos recopilados de Lista, Quintana y Gallego, Sevilla, Alfar/Universidad de Córdoba, 1993 Ideología y literatura en Alberto Lista, Sevilla, Alfar, 1993 Manuel José Quintana y el espíritu de la España liberal. Con textos desconocidos, Sevilla, Alfar, 1995 O outro rostro de Alvaro Cunqueiro, Santiago de Compostela, Fundación A. Brañas, 1996, 1996El sueño de José Bergamín, Sevilla, Alfar, 1997 La sombra de Espronceda, Badajoz, Editora Regional de Extremadura, 1999 Posibles inéditos de Quevedo a la muerte de Osuna, Pamplona, Ediciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2003
  • DMT, Sobre Cervantes, Alcalá de Henares, Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, 2003
  • DMT, Cervantes y el ámbito anglosajón, Madrid, Sial, 2005
  • DMT, Con Azorín. Estudios sobre José Martínez Ruiz, Madrid, Sial, 2005
  • DMT : Juan Ramón, Alberti: dos poetas líricos, Kassel, Edition Reichenberger, 2006 ‘Doña Blanca de Castilla’, tragedia inédita del duque de Rivas, Pamplona, EUNSA, 2007
  • DMT, Poetas románticas españolas , Madrid, Sial, 2008
  • DMT, El universo literario del duque de Rivas, Sevilla, Alfar, 2009. Valle-Inclán y su leyenda. Al hilo de “El ruedo ibérico”, Granada, Editorial Comares, 2015,.El otro Espronceda, Sevilla, Editorial Alfar, 2016.Cervantes y el amor, Sevilla, Editorial Alfar, 2017.
  • La poética interior de Octavio Paz, Sevilla, Alfar, 2018.
  • Ideología y castas en Cervantes, Madrid, Visor, 2023.
  • El alma de los libros. La literatura como refugio, Córdoba, Berenice, 2024.

Edited Classics

La poética interior de Octavio Paz, Sevilla, Alfar, 2018.

Translations

Creative works

Poetry

Guiños , Barcelona, Ámbito Literario, 1981 Alrededor de ti,, Barcelona, Anthropos, 1984 Las cuatro estaciones y el amor, Córdoba, Diputación Provincial, 1990 La otra tierra, Murcia, Universidad de Murcia, 1990Una folla di voci ,, Bari, Levante Editori, 1992 Tres pájaros en primavera,, Madrid, Ediciones Libertarias, 1995El palacio de la sabiduría,, Madrid, Sial Ediciones, 2001 Mirar la luna. Poesía completa , Madrid, Sial/Fugger Libros, 2003 Adagio al sol, Sevilla, Ed. Algaida, 2007Fantasmas en la niebla,, Sevilla, Algaida, 2009. Al amor de Ella. Poesía completa 1974-2014, Sevilla, Alfar, 2016.
  • Matices. Antología poética 1974-2016,, Madrid, Cátedra.

Narrative

Los sueños del búho,, Madrid, Huerga y Fierro Editores, 1998.Los dioses de la Noche,, Madrid, Sial, 2004 Éxito,, Sevilla, Alfar, 2013.El signo infinito. Relatos completos , Sevilla, Alfar, 2016.
  • Inés y los duendes, Córdoba, Berenice, 2025