Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:33:49
-0400
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Tres pésames
To: "A. Robert Lauer" <[log in to unmask]>
Prof. A. Robert Lauer
University of Oklahoma
5 de abril, 2006.
Distinguido colega: Supe con gran pena del fallecimiento de Carroll B.
Johson a
las pocas horas. Una perdida doblemente dolorosa por lo inesperada. Fue
uno de
mis primeros estudiantes en este pais, a la vez que uno de los mejores
y
mantuvimos siempre una excelente relacion. Su trabajo fue uno de los
mas
solidos y estimulantes del hispanismo de este pais. Estamos todos
de luto. Mi
sincera condolencia a la familia y a los colegas y estudiantes de su
Departamento. Francisco Márquez Villanueva.
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:39:59 -0700
From: Jose Reynaldo Cartagena <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Obituario Carroll Johnson
To: [log in to unmask]
Estimado
Roberto:
Todos seguimos profundamente consternados por la muerte de Carroll
Johnson. Incluyo a continuación su obituario que salió hoy, 7 de abril,
en el periódico Los Angeles Times.
Recibe un saludo muy cordial de,
Jose R.
Cartagena-Calderon
Assistant
Professor
Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures
Pomona
College
550 N. Harvard
Ave.
Claremont, CA
91711
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-johnson7apr07,1,5588083.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
OBITUARIES
Carroll Johnson, 69; Cervantes
scholar
From a Times Staff
Writer
April 7, 2007
Carroll Johnson, a longtime Spanish professor at UCLA whose Freudian
analysis of novelist Miguel de Cervantes and his masterpiece "Don
Quixote" stirred controversy among Cervantes scholars, died Tuesday
in Chicago after a stroke. He was 69.
Johnson had been in Chicago to deliver a lecture, a UCLA representative
said.
A Los Angeles native who spent his entire academic career at UCLA,
Johnson was past president of the Cervantes Society of America and editor
of the scholarly journal Cervantes.
In 2005 he oversaw a monthlong celebration at UCLA marking the 100th
[sic] anniversary of "Don Quixote," the tragicomic novel about
a self-styled knight-errant on a quest to restore chivalry to the world.
The event included a marathon reading of the novel by students along with
films and scholarly talks, including an address by Johnson for the 98th
in the university's Faculty Research Lecture series.
Johnson was known for insightful and groundbreaking research,
particularly in his 1983 book "Madness and Lust: A Psychoanalytical
Approach to 'Don Quixote.' " He later wrote from a socioeconomic
perspective in "Cervantes and the Material World."
His observations about Quixote's Oedipal conflicts and his beard (which
he described as an "upwardly displaced analogue of the virile
member") fascinated and repelled critics. A Los Angeles Times
reviewer said Johnson's Freudian insights gave the book "a modern
perspective," but Justin Marozzi, writing in the London Sunday
Telegraph, found them "absurd."
Tall, wiry and bearded, Johnson received bachelor's and master's degrees
from UCLA in 1960 and 1961. His doctorate, in 1966, was from Harvard. He
joined the UCLA faculty as an acting assistant professor in 1964 and
became a full professor in 1976.
Johnson is survived by his wife, Linda Leslie Johnson, and their
daughter, Amy.
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