Un ramillete: el olor de la juventud

Abstract

“Bouquet” is a story by Darío belonging to the Azul... period. It constitutes a remarkable prose style exercise as well as an early attempt in erudition. Currently modern editors follow the 1950’ Mejía Sánchez lecture of the Cuentos completos. For the first time in more than a century we offer here an edition that examines that canonical version with the original apparition, during Darío’s life-time: La Época, Santiago de Chile, December the 9th, 1886, n° 1698. This new edition includes some summary considerations on the subject of cuento modernista and a rich critical apparatus. It is an advance of the coming book: Rubén Darío. Retrato del poeta como joven cuentista; estudio y edición de Alberto Paredes, prólogo de Alfonso García Morales, Fondo de Cultura Económica (Tierra Firme); to appear by the end of 2016.