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Jorge Ibargüengoitia Papers
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Jorge Ibargüengoitia was born in Guanajuato, Mexico on January 22, 1928. As a child, he moved to Mexico City, where he spent most of his life. After training as an engineer and administering his family's hacienda, Ibargüengoitia studied drama at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México under Rodolfo Usigli, then Mexico's leading playwright. From 1953-1960, Ibargüengoitia wrote ten plays and achieved modest success with some, including Susana y los jóvenes and Clotilde en su casa. In 1962, he wrote El atentado, a farce about the assassination of a Mexican president by a militant Catholic in 1928. Discouraged from producing the play in Mexico, Ibargüengoitia premiered El atentado in Cuba and won the Casa de las Américas prize. In 1963, Ibargüengoitia turned from drama to novels and short stories. In novels such as Los relámpagos de agosto (1963), Las muertas (1977), and Los pasos de López (1982), he satirized Mexican society, particularly the uncritical veneration of the Mexican Revolution and the corruption and hypocrisy of the powerful. Ibargüengoitia brought his mordant wit to his nonfiction writing, which included columns in Excélsior (1968-1976), later gathered in book-length collections, and essays for Vuelta. Ibargüengoitia and his wife, the painter Joy Laville (full name, Helene Joy Laville), moved from Mexico to Paris in 1980. He lived there until his death in the Madrid Avianca Air accident on November 27, 1983.
This collection contains notes and drafts of many of Ibargüengoitia's plays and novels, including El atentado, Clotilde en su casa, Maten al león, Las muertas, Los pasos de López, and Los relámpagos de agosto as well as drafts of an unfinished novel, Isabel cantaba. Drafts of Ibargüengoitia's short stories and film scenarios, translations of his works, biweekly columns for Excélsior, and essays for Vuelta also appear in the collection. Correspondence consists of letters from family and friends such as Enrique Krauze and Octavio Paz as well as business correspondence with literary agents and publishers. The collection also includes photographs, personal papers, writings about Ibargüengoitia, and printed material.
Purchased from Jorge Ibargüengoitia's widow, Helene Joy Laville in 2009 (AM2009-117).
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This collection was processed by Alyssa Meyers in 2010. Finding aid written by Alyssa Meyers in 2010.
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- Dramatists, Mexican -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Dramatists, Mexican -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Journalists, Mexican -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Journalists, Mexican -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Novelists, Mexican -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Novelists, Mexican -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts -- 20th century
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Alyssa Meyers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2010
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Collection Inventory
This series consists of Jorge Ibargüengoitia's plays, novels, short fiction, and nonfiction writing, including drafts with author notes and corrections.
Seven subseries arranged by genre: Subseries 1A: Plays, 1B: Film Scenarios and Treatments, 1C: Novels, 1D: Short Stories, 1E: Nonfiction, 1F: Translations, and 1G: Notebooks.
Physical Description12 boxes
This subseries is comprised of drafts of Jorge Ibargüengoitia's plays.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
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Multiple drafts
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TMs, 65 pp.
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TMs, 65 pp.
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TMs with ANs and autograph corrections, 55 pp.
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TMs, 52 pp.
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TMs with ANs and autograph corrections, 71 pp.
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TMss with ANs and autograph corrections, 205 pp.
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Photocopy of TMs, 84 pp.
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Photocopy of TMs with autograph corrections, 26 pp.
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TMs, 77 pp.
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Includes TMs with autograph corrections and a photocopied TMs of Farsa de valiente Nicolás, 17 pp.
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TMs with ANs and autograph corrections; also includes photocopied TMs, 80 pp.
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Includes La lucha con el ángel, Rigoberto entre las ramas, and La fuga de Nicanor. TMss with autograph corrections, 41 pp. The manuscript of La lucha con el ángel is a photocopy. Also contains photocopy of two pages of Ante varias esfinges.
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries contains film scenarios and treatments that are mostly based on Ibargüengoitia's plays.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
Physical Description2 boxes
TMss with autograph corrections, 300 pp. Collection of film scenarios: "5 Episodios Provinciales," which includes the following: "La caída del Juez Pereira," "Amor de Sarita y el Profesor Rocafuerte," "El conferenciante," "Opulencia del ingeniero Tarragona," "El lobo y la virgen." Also includes the film scenarios "La víctima," "Pereira el magnífico," "La prueba de la virtud," and "Vámonos, Cristina."
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TMss of film treatment "El anarquista" and film scenario "La lucha con el ángel," 40 pp.
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Copy of TMs film scenario, 24 pp.
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Copies of TMss, 75 pp. Includes "La víctima" and "La prueba de la virtud."
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This subseries contains notes, notebooks, and drafts of Ibargüengoitia's novels. Many contain autograph corrections.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
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1 box
ADs, 7 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 200 pp.
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TMs, 10 pp.
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2 boxes
Photocopy of TMs with autograph corrections, 80 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 180 pp.
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Photocopy of TMs with autograph corrections, 190 pp.
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Notebooks, notes, and drafts
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Two versions. Also includes "Los papeles de Amaral," ADss.
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ANs
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TMs with autograph corrections, 23 pp. Includes writing plan.
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TMs, 100 pp.
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TMs, 240 pp. Nonsequential, numbered by chapter.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 92 pp.
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Photocopy of TMs with autograph corrections, 208 pp.
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Photocopy of TMs with autograph corrections, 208 pp.
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Notebooks, artwork, and multiple drafts
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TMs with autograph corrections, 97 pp. Appears under title El libro de las Poquianchis. Includes newspaper clippings with notes. Original clippings have been removed to Box 30.
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ADs. Includes clippings and a writing plan. Annotated news story, "Un Mínimo de 50 Mujeres y 100 Recién Nacidos han Asesinado," El Heraldo, January 14, 1964. Original news clipping now in Box 30.
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Illustration based on newspaper photograph
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TMs with autograph corrections, 180 pp.
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Multiple drafts
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TMs with typed corrections, 191 pp.
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TMss with autograph corrections, 95 pp. Appears under the title of the Spanish edition, Los conspiradores.
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Photocopy of TMs with autograph corrections, 72 pp. Appears under the title of the Spanish edition, Los conspiradores.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 111 pp.
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TMs, ADs, 10 pp.
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This subseries contains drafts of Ibargüengoitia's short stories and short story collections as well as notes for projected stories and short articles for Plural.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
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TMss with AN, 60 pp.
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TMss with autograph notes, 25 pp. Essays appear in Revolución en el jardín.
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TMss, 155 pp.
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Photocopy of ADs, 18pp. Includes notes for stories not yet written.
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Series of articles for Plural. TMss with photocopies of printed versions, 20 pp. Original printed versions removed to Box 30.
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This subseries consists of Ibargüengoitia's essays, his short essays for Vuelta, and his columns for Excélsior, which were later collected in Viajes en la América ignota and Sálvese quien pueda.
Arranged alphabetically.
Physical Description5 boxes
TMss with autograph corrections, 100 pp.
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Includes TMss with autograph corrections and photocopies of printed columns.
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Copy of handwritten list. Not by Ibargüengoitia.
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ADss, 15 pp . Contains sketches for Memorias de un año.
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Multiple drafts
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TMs, 130 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 130 pp.
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TMss, 10 pp.
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TMs, 100 pp.
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TMs, 65 pp.
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TMss with autograph corrections, 110 pp. Also includes Vuelta issue 1(12), dated November 1977.
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TMss, 15 pp.
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This subseries contains Jorge Ibargüengoitia and Joy Laville's translations of his works.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
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Photocopied TMs with autograph corrections, 5 pp.
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Multiple drafts
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ADs and TMs with autograph corrections, 195 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 181 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 181 pp.
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Multiple drafts
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TMs with autograph corrections, 42 pp. Jorge Ibargüengoitia's first version, written in past tense.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 42 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 50 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 181 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 137 pp.
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TMs with autograph corrections, 182 pp.
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This subseries consists of notebooks containing autobiographical material and notes for plays and novels.
Arranged chronologically.
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2 notebooks on Rockefeller Fellowship, notes for El loco amor, viene and "El pescado es a la esfinge del gato."
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Contains 3 notebooks: "Notas sobre una novela sin título." Notes for projected works, including Dos crímenes and a fictionalized account of his participation in the creative writing program at the University of Iowa entitled Memorias de un año. Also includes notes for Vuelta columns. 1978 datebook used as a notebook contains notes for Los conspiradores. An undated notebook contains a short list of Excélsior columns for use in a collection.
Physical Description1 folder
This series consists of Ibargüengoitia's correspondence with family, friends, literary agencies, publishers, and editors as well as the correspondence of Luz Antillón and Joy Laville.
Three subseries arranged by type of correspondence: Subseries 2A: Personal Correspondence, Subseries 2B: Business Correspondence, and Subseries 2C: Correspondence of Others.
Physical Description7 boxes
Ibargüengoitia's correspondence with family and friends. Many of the files contain outgoing correspondence from Ibargüengoitia, particularly the files of Luz Antillón and Joy Laville.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
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23 letters
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21 letters
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23 letters
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24 letters
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24 letters
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Photocopies of 6 letters
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6 letters
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8 letters
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13 letters
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Signed "Kinos"; 20 letters
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1 box
14 letters
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11 letters
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12 letters
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20 letters
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8 letters
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7 letters
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10 letters
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13 letters
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12 letters
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6 letters
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4 letters
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17 letters
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Contains correspondence from Sharon Alexander, Jose María Alujas, Manuel Antillón, Clara Armendáriz, Enrico Cicogna, David Erlij, Verónica González, Griffiths, Solómon Grimberg, John Hoeveler, and Helene Horton.
Physical Description1 folder
Contains correspondence from Sylvie Koller, Manuel Leal, Aura López, Malena Mijares, Ángelo Morino, Fernande Odiaux, Jaime de la Peza, Libuse Prokopová, Abel Quezada, St. Peter's Medical Center, Felipe Vega Brunk, Renata Maria Valdés, and Asa Zatz.
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Consists of Ibargüengoitia's correspondence with publishers, editors, and literary agents.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
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Contains list of editions.
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Contains the correspondence of Luz Antillón and Joy Laville
Arranged alphabetically.
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Also includes correspondence directed to Trevor Rowe, Joy Laville's son and her legal agent in the case.
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Correspondence about tribute issue to Jorge Ibargüengoitia
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The personal papers of Jorge Ibargüengoitia and the personal papers of Luz Antillón and Joy Laville.
Two subseries arranged by creator: Subseries 3A: Personal Papers of Ibargüengoitia and 3B: Personal Papers of Others.
Physical Description3 boxes
Contains the personal papers of Jorge Ibargüengoitia, including family papers, financial and travel documents, address and appointment books, and playbills and play posters.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
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Records Ibargüengoitia's earnings from his translations.
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6 address books
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Death certificate and burial papers
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Photocopies of nineteenth-century documents concerning the Antillón family.
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15 appointment books
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Childhood artwork by Ibargüengoitia
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1 folder
Large printed commemoration of Jorge Ibargüengoitia's birth removed to Box 30.
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Contains datebook with financial notes.
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Poster for a production of Clotilde en su casa and the 1975 production of El atentado now in Box 30.
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Devotional book, Ejercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio de Loyola (Madrid: Apostolado de la Prensa, S.A., 1950), and Mexico fact book, México Agenda Estadística 1971 (México, D.F.: Secretaria de Industria y Comercio, 1971), owned by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
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Material from Ibargüengoitia's semester teaching at Rutgers. Contains 2 ID photographs.
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Materials on the Antillón family hacienda. Maps and blueprints have been placed in Box 30.
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Miscellaneous reciepts, itineraries, and printed material from Ibargüengoitia's travels.
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Material from Ibargüengoitia's fellowship at the University of Iowa.
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Papers of Luz Antillón and Joy Laville
Arranged alphabetically.
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Contains miscellaneous devotional and printed material.
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Material relating to Guanajuato's commemoration of Ibargüengoitia in 2003.
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Consists of printed short stories, exceprts of novels, plays, and a list of Ibargüengoitia's books originally included with the papers.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
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Published by Universidad de México.
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1 folder
In "suplemento de El Nacional"
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Copies of printed versions of Susana y los jóvenes and Clotilde en su casa, El viaje, and El pájaro.
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List of books that were originally part of the collection and sent to the Rare Books Department. These books were editions of Ibargüengiotia's works, including translations. Also includes a book jacket for Estas ruinas que ves
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Contains writings on Ibargüengoitia and adaptations and translations of his works.
Three subseries arranged by type of writing: Subseries 5A: Material about Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Subseries 5B: Adaptations, Subseries 5C: Translations.
Physical Description7 boxes
Magazine and journal articles, newspaper clippings, essays, and scholarship on Ibargüengoitia.
Arranged by type of writing and chronology.
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Masters thesis
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Thesis
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Essay
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On Las muertas. TMs with autograph corrections.
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Work for the second year of the doctorate
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Masters thesis
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Ph.D. dissertation
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Masters thesis
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Essay
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Arroyo Vieyra, Francisco, ed. Ibargüengotia a contrareloj (collection of other writers' reflections on Ibargüengoitia). Muñoz Alarcón, Horacio, ed. "En primera persona" Cronología ilustrada de Jorge Ibargüengoitia (selections of Ibargüengoitia's autobiographical writing as well as photographs). Reyes Fragoso, Arturo. Dos artistas en pantalón corto: Ibargüengoitia y Felguérez, scouts (Ibargüengoitia and Manuel Felguérez's experience as Boy Scouts in the 1930s).
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Entries from the Dictionary of Mexican Authors, Coordinaccíon Nacional de Literatura del INBA, selected biographical and autobiographical excerpts, and a list of works.
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Screenplays and an opera based on Ibargüengoitia's works.
Arranged alphabetically by work.
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Production by Juan José Gurrola. Includes photographs (now in Box 28) and a poster (now in Box 30).
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1 cassette tape removed to Box 29
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partial screenplay by Antonio Camacho Oropeza
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English translations and one Dutch translation of Ibargüengoitia's works.
Arranged alphabetically by title of the original work.
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English translation by Irene del Corral
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English translation by Kathy Snodgrass
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English translation by Mariana Deball. Includes correspondence concerning translation.
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English translation by Helen Lane and Ronald Christ. Published by Fondo de Cultura Económica
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English translation by Asa Zatz
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1 folder
Incomplete
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Translation by Dominique Fischer. Includes correspondence about the translation.
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Unidentified translator
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English translation by Irene del Corral
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Contains photographs of Jorge Ibargüengoitia, his family and friends, and the 1975 Mexican production of El atentado.
Arranged chronologically.
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30 photographs
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60 photographs
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10 photographs. Includes family photographs. Oversize black and white photograph of Guanajuato now in Box 30.
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21 photographs, 1 contact sheet, 13 negatives. 2 photos include Jorge Ibargüengoitia.
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Consists of audiovisual material, including a DVD of scanned photographs and book jackets, videotapes of programs on Ibargüengoitia and adaptations of his work, and music by the composer of the opera based on Las muertas.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
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Música de Enrique González Medina. From Subseries 5B: Adaptations, Box 25, Folder 4.
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Contains 79 scanned photos and 26 scanned book covers.
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