About Xavier Villaurrutia
Xavier Villaurrutia y González was a Mexican poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos, published in 1953. Starting in the late 1930s, Villaurrutia's work reflects his preoccupation with death. He wrote about feeling a nostalgia for death, and about invitations to death. Villaurrutia would later found the first experimental theater in Mexico. Along with Salvador Novo, they founded the magazine Ulises in 1927, in which he published the novel Dama de corazones (Lady of hearts) in 1928.
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