209 / The Only Lie 
Behind 'The One Lie' -
In an event of great importance to the cultural history of the City, the UANL presented at the IDF's first novel of the Institution: The One Lie, Felipe Castro Guerra, unpublished in book form. -
The following is the story of an author and Rescue of his work. life deepens: dig your grave David Alberto Cossio poet in a pool of blood, there were lying / silent forever, forever asleep / with your eyes open too open .... open / and always look at me dead, or without love and without hatred, without pleasure or bitterness, / with subtle irony and yet tenderly. / The dagger in my right hand still smoldered, / but I heard the furor did not scream, / and growing horror, and anguish grew, / and smoked in my right hand the knife still / with the fog burning your blood Burning, / virgin in your blood, your blood (...)
goddess would imagine the faces of the members of the Scientific and Literary Society "José Eleuterio Gonzalez, Felipe Castro Guerra, barely 20 years old was reading the first verses of the immortal Delirium, eerie poem of the man who reaches the top of their passion by murdering the beloved and for years the most cited in bars and clubs, which brought its author fame that has not any poet lived in local history, with the exception of Alfonso Reyes by Sol de Monterrey.
was 1901 (some say it was in late 1900) and, according to his friend Hector Gonzalez, to listen was "like the revelation of an unknown world, full of things acres, refined and subtle, something like if we had heard a speech Bolsheviki (sic) in a patriotic evening times of Porfirio Diaz."
Castro Guerra, born in Monterrey in 1881, on Calle Hidalgo, and who used to be confused with a namesake brother who was born in the town of Hidalgo in 1878 and died the following year (mess that clarified Israel Cavazos) confessed on Delirio in a letter to his friend Alfredo Gonzalez: "When you see those who know your aureolilla popularity, won by a poem that perhaps is the more Malena your entire production, say of you, with derogatory tone between protector: Bah .. The poet .... "
And Castro Guerra was not only the author of Delirio, but a poet of interesting claims, the first professional writer, besides the first damn, given his courtship with the works of authors such as Baudelaire and Mallarmé, women, alcohol and drugs.
"is the first to suffer marginalization as an artist in a society that was industrializing Monterrey as the early 20th century," says literary critic Victor Barrera Enderle.
" born in a boom, just as Bernardo Reyes comes to the state. Educated in the fundamental institutions of the state as School Civil and since Young is interested in art and democracy, something interesting, because what about the profile of the modern author, the intellectual ".
product of his time, says the editor of the Arms and Letters, Castro Guerra overlook the English classics, accepted in the curricula of the Civil Association in contrast to other parts of the country, which was dominated by liberal thought. Also apparent is the influence of Romantic writers.
"For reasons of its formation, the poet crosses various levels, is a modernist at times, romantic, neoclassical and naturalist.
Although the same thing happened to Manuel Acuña, which overshadowed the rest of his poetry a single poem and less relevant, the work of Guerra Castro was appreciated during his time by many and not write left intellectually and ideologically, so that it becomes a life antirreyista demanded full democratic .
therefore participate in the demonstration on April 2, 1903, which is repressed by the parent of Universal Regiomontanus. Persecuted
, leaves his studies in law and in exile, begins a journey through towns and public offices that are far in spite of the literary vocation, for example, when works for Nemesio Garcia Naranjo, former Minister of Education and Fine Arts Victoriano Huerta, aunque el lampacense lo contrata para que escriba.
"Sigue escribiendo", aclara Barrera Enderle, "pero no al tiempo que quisiera. Mantiene problemas económicos, tiene serios problemas de alcoholismo y de salud. Por ello, su fama permanece hasta su muerte e incluso después se convierte en autor de culto para sus contemporáneos.
"Sin embargo, la fama cede porque los de sus generación mueren, por lo que sus poemas son olvidados. Así, se publica poco en periódicos y revistas y, a la mitad del Siglo 20, es más leyenda que autor".
Su primera antología poética sería publicada por Tomás de Hoyos en 1935, en la imprenta local J.E. Puente. Sería hasta Alfonso Reyes 1991 when Aurreocoechea-that boy of 19 who pictured the moment they are buried the remains of the poet in a tomb in the Pantheon of Dolores, in 1935, and 13 years after his death in Chihuahua-edited complete.
novelist in 1992 in the collective volume from El Cerro de la Silla, published by the UANL, Alfonso Rangel Guerra slogan which will be a great cultural contribution: the name of the first novel in the history of Nuevo León.
"It will be the century without there being 19 in Nuevo Leon a fictional narrative and, unless error on our part to lack of any work in confidence in this century, not until the beginning of the next, precisely in 1901, when you type in Nuevo León's first novel as a work of fiction, the only lie, Felipe Castro Guerra, described himself as' novel local historical, '"Rangel writes War.
" From this year, and sometimes with long periods without the appearance of such works, published happen Nuevo Leon narrative throughout the century until our day. "And is that the humanist said that, from 1900 to 1991, he published 96 novels and works of fiction," plus three in the process, at least, by 46 authors including Fray Servando Teresa Mier, whose memoirs "are the first work of fiction written by an author of this land."
serialized every week in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo, the only lie in Peñasbravas develops, people of the fiction and the action takes place in the last years of the presidency of Santa Anna, says Rangel Guerra.
The main characters are Apolonio Serafina Met and Matamoros, he was 20 years her senior, and the novel begins when both were married.
Barrera Enderle points today, "the story could be connected with those of Leopoldo Alas 'Clarín' and Daniel Sada by the quaintness of the characters and language, and is of when the character (Apollonius) returns home from his father and neighbor is a girl (Serafina) with flirting. The plot is about a lie he tells about the time and it torments him.
The novel ends abruptly in Chapter 53, when the character appears to reveal that the girl had lied.
In from El Cerro de la Silla, Rangel Guerra wrote that the work lacks an adequate development narrative, the characters do not reach a solid configuration and the story itself does not lead to any conflict or denouement.
For its part, says it Barrera Enderle probable that the author wanted to continue it, but was prevented by political conflicts. However, Guerra Castro survived more than 20 years after stopping. Why not resume?
"It could come back to it, without doubt," he muses, "but perhaps he was disappointed or thought he needed more time. I do not know. The life, political woes, work, love, that took many, his problem with alcohol, was also strong, in short, any of those reasons, or all, were delaying her return to her.
"Ultimately that's the great point: why not continued? Perhaps also his papers were in Monterrey, "says the critic, who says that the work will have been seen in his time as a curiosity melodramatic.
In that essay for the book from the Cerro de la Silla, Rangel Guerra writes that he provided him the manuscript of the only lie, from which it was based on the novel writing was Aurrecoechea Reyes, editor of the largest collection poetry that has been made in Castro Guerra.
This manuscript was given to Reyes Aurrecoechea by Alfredo Gonzalez, owner of Regina pharmacies that eventually would join the chain Benavides, and that war was a personal friend of Castro. Along the
manuscript of the novel, González Reyes gave the daily Aurrecoechea Castro Guerra, and two volumes, also manuscripts, poetry. No one, however, was interested in those years to edit these works or in a single volume to say that Rangel is the first novel War of Nuevo León and on which he wrote, in 1991, exactly nine decades after serialization in The New Century.
Delirio by Guerra Castro On completion the 120 years since the birth of Castro Guerra, in 2001, the North looks to the poet and editor Martínez Alfonso Reyes, in the light of the anniversary, to talk about the relationship between their father, Reyes Aurrecoechea, and the author of Delirio.
was there that he asked Reyes Martinez if it retained the manuscript of the only lie. The author of Dark Territory was then the notebook with 372 pages, of which most are written in manuscript by the author, while the rest are cuts own newspaper.
The book is sealed with a name Joseph C. War. War was the brother of Castro. A final cut
glued to book an ad slogan from the editor of the newspaper: "We are pleased to announce the public that our fellow Drafting Mr. Felipe Guerra Castro, is back with his productions to take their place in the columns of The New Century.
"Mr. Guerra Castro was the victim during this time of an illness that made it impossible to write for which reason he was forced to suspend publication of his unpublished novel, the only lie that much to the delight of our subscribers is republished from the current issue.
In this cut , says Castro Guerra date: December 3, 1901. But never resume.
Interview with Reyes Martínez in which it is stated that still retains the manuscript was published on December 8, 2001. Almost exactly a century after Castro Guerra interrupted his novel.
under the authority of Reyes Martinez, NORTH photocopied at the time the novel was unfinished and with Carolina Farias, then president of Conarte. Enthusiastic, she said that would print for the first time in one volume, as is stated in a note published on May 28, 2002.
Farias gave this copy to the writer Pedro Island, vocal literature before the Council, who transcribed it in full. However, the officer resigned from the agency in October 2003 and the publication of the only lie was suspended.
was in those days of mind to recover the work of Castro War Arms and Letters magazine published the first three chapters of the novel. Then silence again.
Two years later, the August 23 2005 already questions EL NORTHERN Enderle acknowledged Barrera advisable deepen local historiography works reprint forming so canon including La Single Mentira.
Canon Nuevo Leon, he said, would start with the complete works of José Eleuterio González "Gonzalitos" Capilla Alfonsina available, along with his biography written by Hermenegildo Davila, the journal Contemporary (1909), the most important literary journal so far, led by Virgilio Garza and had as editors to Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Fortunato Lozano, Joel Rocha and Hector Gonzalez.
"should include 'Some Notes About Literature and Culture of Nuevo Leon ', Rafael Garza Cantu, our first novel, still unpublished, unfinished, "The Only Lie' by Felipe Guerra Castro, texts by Carlos Barrera, Rafael Lozano and Eusebio de la Cueva, and 'Neolonesa Poetry Anthology' by Emeterio González Treviño, "he said on that occasion.
time after that interview, Barrera Enderle gave a seminar in literary theory in the Cripil, which shared the topic discussed NORTH to train local historiography to construct a canon Nuevo Leon.
Among those attending the seminar was the researcher Florence Romo, who endorsed the need to edit the only lie, so he spoke of his concern with the critical and Martínez Reyes sought to retake the manuscript of the novel, which matched with the transcript made years ago by De Isla
Today finally, almost 110 years after the publication of the first section of the novel in The New Century, edited UANL first facsimile and so the only lie under the leadership of Romo and her studies, Barrera Enderle and historian Edmundo Derbez.
Final Thoughts Why so late was the novelistic genre in Nuevo Leon, nearly 80 years after publication of the first novel in Latin America: The Periquillo Sarniento, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi?
Barrera Enderle has a thesis:
"On one hand, we think that in Nuevo Leon only had a printing press, which brought Padre Mier and confiscated Arredondo, and publications that priority was given to oratory rather than the poetry, political speeches.
"Writers are engaged in public speaking then, the flowers and the media play politics. So I think Castro Guerra is the first professional writer, because it really was concerned about the literature devoted to it in full, from there that I think he realized that what I was writing was a novel way. "
Reyes Martinez says the same: the value of Guerra Castro was to be a poet, writer to the fullest, and sustained.
" I missed life, nothing more, because his poetry, I still was missing, looking for the perfect fit. "
And Castro Guerra, hectic life, suffering from tuberculosis and died in oblivion, in Chihuahua.
in the anthology by Thomas de Hoyos, Eusebius of Cave, author of the first crime Aramberri Street (1933), states: "Rolling his poems by the messy newspaper offices in the provinces, scorned by purists selfish gesture of our language, considered by critics hollow, like a sour fruits sick imagination, always moving in a plane of excitation mediocrity, today have become enmeshed in this book promotes.
"Seen from a distance, Guerra Castro holds the figure of the Romantic poet, tormented, sick, no money, bohemian and a victim of jealousy. His poems, notes of doom and disappointment, are full of dragonflies and female vampires, as well as venus morbid and indecent. "
and notes, as prophetic: "It's unbelievable that such great poets are unknown to us."
Reyes Martinez, who kept it the only edition of another rarity, this self published a novel written by historian David Alberto Cossio: The Paradise of Tourists, which like the rest of the work is expected Castro War editor, read a passage a letter from Ernesto Zertuche Aurrecoechea Reyes, dated July 17, 1972, and which describes the last days of the author's first novel of the entity.
"As for his life, full of failures, and we anticipated something García Naranjo. As you refer I think this my illustrious countryman was fortunate to combine some good days of existence lucid, but weak and self-conscious of our bard, giving modest job in the Ministry of Education to rescue from the flood that overwhelmed the vices and misery. Only this might not last long and neither will the ministry lasted protector. I say this because the very García Naranjo noted that, being then in exile, received a letter dated Chihuahua Guerra Castro favors received recognition and farewell. He was, he said, the edge of the grave the victim of tuberculosis in its last phase.
"I met him occasionally in the city of Chihuahua during a meeting of political propaganda for the candidacy of Don Pablo Gonzalez for President. Of course, Castro Guerra was not political. I was neither. We went there by condescension, mine with General Heleodoro T. Perez, my elementary school classmate very dear friend then settled there, Castro Guerra condescension with guard on duty, Mr. José María Pérez, classmate and then judge did not know what the general and his older brother my friend. The lawyer Perez presented here the poet and was applauded, but not open his lips and turned away. I was traveling at the time, not returned. The last time I saw War ended Castro was the man physically and morally. He lived in an old house, residence or guest house known as Casa Oaxaca, very close to a triangular public garden one of whose vertices wore a bust of General Félix U. Gómez with the eagle of our defense. Castro Guerra, insomniac, she spent long hours in the warm evenings of Chihuahua in that garden, according to the lawyer jokingly said Perez in the presence of the bard, without being able to round up a verse in honor of that owl. The poet smiled and said nothing. Died shortly thereafter.
"seem childish to deal with trivial minutiae of the life of a great man, but that same greatness gives value and interest."
Thirteen years after his death, the Masonic lodge Monterrey was for his remains to Chihuahua and, supported by a number of instances, deposited in a beautiful tomb, the first on the left to enter the Pantheon of Dolores, and under the shade of an old avocado looks at the top of the stone-in which boasts a relief of Antonio Decanini-the portentous name contains everything that says everything: Delirium. Posted by
NORTH PD
After publishing the article, I visited the tomb of Philip. It has cracks, the relief is being lost.
Prof. 
