Jose enrique rodo biography

José Enrique Rodó (b. 15 July ; d. 1 May ), Uruguayan writer and literary critic. Rodó was born in Montevideo. In secondary school and at the University of Montevideo he was weak in the sciences but excelled in literature and history.

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As professor of literature at the University of Montevideo (–), deputy in Congress for the Colorado Party (–, –), and essayist, he was the spokesman for intellectual motivation, moderation, and good taste—in public life as well as in literature.

His principal books are Ariel (), his first and best-known work; the much longer and less-structured spiritual quest Motivos de Proteo (; The Motives of Proteus, ); and a collection of essays, vignettes, and literary criticism, El mirador de Próspero (; Prospero's Balcony).

His writings are collected in Obras completas, edited by Emir Rodríguez Monegal, 2d ed. ().

Like José Martí in Cuba and Rubén Darío in Nicaragua, Rodó was a leading exponent of modernism in Hispanic Am