Federico Gamboa

Federico Gamboa

Lieutenant Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico
In charge of Office
In office
April 1910  May 1910
President Porfirio Díaz

Secretary of Foreign Affairs
In office
11 August 1913  24 September 1913
President Victoriano Huerta
Personal details
Born (1864-12-22)December 22, 1864
México City
Died August 15, 1939(1939-08-15) (74 years)
México City
Spouse(s) María Sagaseta

Federico Gamboa Iglesias (México City; 22 December 1864 - íb.; 15 August 1939) was a writer and diplomat from Mexico. He has been considered as one of the top representatives of Naturalism in México.[1] Gamboa wrote novels, theater pieces, articles for newspapers and magazines and an autobiography when he was 28 years old. For many years took notes of his travels, experiences and thought, which he later published as five diaries. Posthumously another two more volumes of his diaries were published.

Life as a Mexican diplomat

Federico Gamboa was studying to become a Notary in the National School of Law. However, both of his parents died and he was forced to drop out and start working in 1884. He began as an assistant in a Civil Court and also began on his journalist career. In El Diario del Hogar newspaper he had a regular article called Desde mi mesa (From my table), which he signed as «La Corcadiere». Even though he was doing well for himself, he was not satisfied and joined public service.

After passing all the tests, he joined the Mexican Foreign Affairs Service as second secretary on 9 October 1888. Gamboa was 24 years old when he was sent to Guatemala; afterwards he worked for the Mexican Embassy in Argentina. From 12 August to 24 September 1913 he was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs but he ended his diplomatic career after only forty four days to run for President, along with general Eugenio Rascón as vicepresident, for the National Catholic Party on 26 October 1913. He lost to Victoriano Huerta and Aureliano Blanquet.

Porfiriato

Main article: Porfiriato
Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico.

Federico Gamboa is well known as one of the most representative Mexican novelist of Porfirio Díaz regime; José Emilio Pacheco pointed out that Gamboa was «a geographic anomaly that found its place in the Porfirian society».[2] Gamboa was, primarily, a man that searched for a good life from that time as the end of his life. For the writer and diplomat, being part of Porfirio Díaz government was more than a chance event: it was for him an inevitable destiny. However, reality of the Mexican Revolution changed his destiny. Porfirio Díaz left office in May 1911 and Gamboa received him in Europe and was able to keep his diplomatic post as Ambassador in the Netherlands. During Victoriano Huerta presidency was invited to lead the Secretariat of Foreign Affais; he led the Secretariat for forty four days and then left to run for president, but lost against Huerta. His return to México marked then Gamboa's end of his good life as public servant.[2] Furthermore, during Venustiano Carranza presidency, Gamboa had to leave Mexico along with his wife María Sagaseta and his only child, going first to the United States and then to La Habana, Cuba, from 1914 to 1919.[2]

Works

Novels

His novels are:[3][4]

Autobiography and memoirs

Theater

His theater pieces are :[3][19]

Journalism

Essays

Motion pictures based on his novels

There is a version made in Spain in 1991, directed by Paul Leduc and called Latino Bar and a free adaptation made in 1949, directed by Fernando de Fuentes, starring Esther Fernández and called Hipólito el de Santa.[3]

Notes and references

References

Bibliography

  • Academia Mexicana correspondiente de la española (1940). Homenaje a don Federico Gamboa (in Spanish). México: Imprenta Universitaria de México. 
  • Carreño, Alberto María (1946). "La obra personal de los miembros de la Academia Mexicana correspondiente de la Española". Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua correspondiente de la Española (in Spanish) (México: SEP). Tomo VIII. 
  • Chasteen, John Charles (2010). Santa: A Novel of Mexico City by Federico Gamboa (in Spanish). EE.UU.: University of North Carolina Press. 
  • Domínguez Michael, Christopher (1996). "Antología de la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX" (in Spanish) I. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica. ISBN 968-16-4394-1. Retrieved 14 November 2009. 
  • García Barragán, María Guadalupe (1988). "Bibliografía de Federico Gamboa". Boletín de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (in Spanish) (México: UNAM) (2): 109–148. 
  • Gutiérrez, Harim B. (2005). En el país de la tristeza. Las misiones diplomáticas de Federico Gamboa en Guatemala (in Spanish). México: SRE/Acervo Histórico diplomático. 
  • Junco, Alfonso (1975). Semblanzas de académicos, ed. "Nuestros centenarios: humanistas mexicanos" (in Spanish). México: Ediciones del Centenario de la Academia Mexicana. pp. 99–101. Retrieved 14 November 2009. 
  • Moore, Ernest R. (1940). "Bibliografía de obras y crítica de Federico Gamboa, 1864–1930". Revista Iberoamericana (in Spanish) (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh) II (3). 
  • Olea Franco, Rafael (2005). Santa, Santa nuestra (in Spanish). México: El Colegio de México. 
  • Pacheco, José Emilio (1977). "Selección, notas y prólogo". Diario de Federico Gamboa 1892–1939 (in Spanish). México: Siglo XXI. 
  • Prendes Guardiola, Manuel (2002). La novela naturalista de Federico Gamboa (in Spanish). Logroño: Universidad de la Rioja. 
  • Sandoval, Adriana (2012). Todos somos iguales frente a las tentaciones. Una Antología General. Federico Gamboa. Biblioteca Americana, serie Viajes al Siglo XIX (in Spanish). México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Fundación para las letras Mexicanas (f,l,m.). 
  • Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (2003). Escritores en la diplomacia Mexicana (in Spanish). 3tomos. México: SRE. 

Works from Gamboa

  • Gamboa, Federico (1892). Jacobo Peuser, ed. Apariencias (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
  • Gamboa, Federico (1922) [1893]. Gómez de la Puente, Eusebio, ed. Impresiones y recuerdos (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). México. 
  • Gamboa, Federico (1994) [1893]. Impresiones y recuerdos (in Spanish) (1st ed.). México: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. 
  • (2012) [1893]. "Impresiones y recuerdos". Todos somos iguales frente a las tentaciones. Una Antología General. Federico Gamboa. Biblioteca Americana, serie Viajes al Siglo XIX (in Spanish) (1st ed.). México: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Fundación para las letras Mexicanas (f,l,m.). 
  • (1894). La última campaña (in Spanish) (1st ed.). México: Tipografía, litografía y encuadernación de I. Paz. 
  • (1896). Suprema Ley (in Spanish) (1st ed.). París – México: Librería de la Vda. De Ch. Bouret. 
  • (1915) [1899]. Gómez de la Puente, Eusebio, ed. Del natural. Esbozos contemporáneaos (in Spanish) (3rd ed.). México. 
  • (2012) [1899]. "Del natural. Esbozos contemporáneaos". Todos somos iguales frente a las tentaciones. Una Antología General. Federico Gamboa. Biblioteca Americana, serie Viajes al Siglo XIX (in Spanish) (1st ed.). México: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Fundación para las letras Mexicanas (f,l,m.). 
  • (1900). La última campaña (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Guatemala: Síguere y Cía. 
  • (1938) [1903]. Santa (in Spanish) (11th ed.). México: Botas. 
  • (1937) [1908]. Gómez de la Puente, Eusebio, ed. Reconquista (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). México: Botas. 
  • (1947) [1913]. La llaga (in Spanish) (3rd ed.). México: Botas, COLI. 
  • (1910). Gómez de la Puente, Eusebio, ed. Mi diario, primera serie (PDF) (in Spanish). México: La Europea. 
  • (1920). Gómez de la Puente, Eusebio, ed. Mi diario, primera serie (in Spanish) III. México: Hispano Americana. 
  • (1920). Gómez de la Puente, Eusebio, ed. Suprema Ley (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). México. 
  • (1927) [1922]. El evangelista: novela de costumbres mexicanas (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). México: Librería Guadalupana. 
  • (1965) [1922]. El evangelista: novela de costumbres mexicanas (in Spanish). México: La Prensa. 
  • (1965). Novelas, prólogo de Francisco Monterde (in Spanish). México: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 
  • (2000). Teatro; edición, estudio preliminar, biografía, cronología, bibliografía y notas de María Guadalupe García Barragán (in Spanish). México: UNAM, Coordinación de Humanidades. 
  • (2005) [1922]. "El evangelista: novela de costumbres mexicanas". Colección Relato, Licenciado Vidriera (in Spanish) (México: UNAM, Coordinación de Difusión Cultural, Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial) 27. 

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Preceded by
Ignacio Mariscal

Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

1910
Succeeded by
Enrique C. Creel Cuilty
Preceded by
Manuel Garza Aldape

Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

1913
Succeeded by
Antonio de la Peña y Reyes
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