Diego Martínez Torrón

Diego Martínez Torrón (born in Córdoba, 1950) is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish Literature at the 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century Spanish literature he has published numerous books on Spanish Romanticism, with interpretive contributions and unpublished texts.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 thinks that it is necessary to anticipate the beginning of spanish romanticism to 1798 with the poems of Quintana, and José Marchena, the young Rivas and other authors. 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 (Success) 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 (Doctor in Pure Philosophy) and as a philologist (Bachelor in Hispanic Philology), 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 Cervantesvirtual.