The first reception of Baudelaire in Mexico: Ramón López Velarde, key reade

Abstract

The reception of Charles Baudelaire, in the nineteenth century in Mexico, went through the magazines of the modernist writers, who published several texts of the French poet before they began to circulate in this country the first translations of his books. An attentive reader of Baudelaire was, without a doubt, Ramón López Velarde, who shows traces of his influence in some of his texts. Here I propose to investigate what were the reading conditions that led to an approach between both poets, not only to answer how Ramón López Velarde arrived at the reading of Baudelaire, but also to infer whether these readings permeated his work, as well as the Jerez poet himself suggest in one of his poems.