Ermilo Abreu Gómez (September 18, 1894 in Mérida – July 14, 1971 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, journalist and lecturer. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language from 1963. He was also a professor in several universities in the United States.
Partial list of works His literary work was varied, over a long period of time:
La Xtabay. 1919 El Corcovado. 1924 Clásicos. Románticos. Modernos (1934) Canek. 1940 in English: Canek. History and legend of a Maya hero.; transl. & introd. by Mario L. Dávila, Carter Wilson. University of California Press, Berkeley 1979 (cf. Google books) Héroes Mayas. Zamná. Cocom. Canek. 1942 in German: Geschichten von den Maja-Indianern. transl. Ludwig Renn. Aufbau, Weimar 1948 Un Loro y tres Golondrinas (1946) Quetzalcóatl, sueño y vigilia (1947) Naufragio de indios (1951) La conjura de Xinúm (1958) Cuentos para contar al fuego (1959) Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, bibliografía y biblioteca (1934) Diálogo del buen decir (1961)
The interest that Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz woke up in him became the passion of his life and it also led him to become her main critic. His most well-known work is Canek (1940), a story about the Maya revolutionary.
As a curiosity, the commentary of the author on the book Canek: "And Nymph lost the best pages!". (Nymph was his wife who typed the original).
Sources Michel de Certeau, La escritura de la historia, Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana-Departamento de Historia, 1985. Miguel Gamboa Carrillo, Apuntes sobre la vida y obra de Ermilio Abreu Gómez, Mérida, Yucatán Escuela Normal Superior de Yucatán, 1981. Jorge Pech, La sabiduría de la emoción. Vida y literatura de Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Mexico, Editorial Tierra Adentro-Conaculta, 1998. Guillermo Sheridan, Los Contemporáneos ayer, Mexico, FCE, 1985
See also Mexican literature