1.Welcome to the blue Library

Nueva York, 1915.

The Nicaraguan poet, the most representative figure of Modernism, lived intensely the forty-nine years of his life. He traveled throughout most of Latin America. He connected early with new poetic currents and with French literature.

His personality was complex: passionate, errant, bohemian and idealistic, devoted with passion to women and alcohol, both religious and pagan, with outbursts of euphoria and drops into deep depressions. But he was also a good man, generous, close and dear.

Dario, a whirlwind of emotions and passion for literature, in his short but intense pilgrimage of life, worked as a librarian. This man, like many other great writers around the world, was one of the great geniuses who took refuge in libraries to let their minds, their creativity, moments of madness and sanity fly in great poems like "Azul", the beginning of his modern style, written in Valparaiso, Chile. As he explained in his work, the title, Azul (blue) was for him "the color of the dream, the color of art, an Hellenic and Homeric color, the color of the ocean and firmament."

Below, I present a little more of the life and work of Rubén Darío.