@techreport{kurepository56,
            year = {2026},
            type = {Discussion Paper},
           title = {Poemas de un joven que no ha amado nunca: sexo s{\'i}, amor no},
     institution = {Keiser University Latin American Campus},
       publisher = {Keiser University Latin American Campus},
            note = {Submitted},
          author = {Traumann, David},
        keywords = {mujeres imaginarias; misoginia; anacronismo. Imaginary Women; Misogyny; Anachronism.},
             url = {https://kurepository.keiseruniversity.edu.ni/id/eprint/56/},
        abstract = {Como ya han notado varios cr{\'i}ticos literarios, el tema del amor en la poes{\'i}a de Joaqu{\'i}n Pasos es algo elusivo. Aparentemente, Pasos jam{\'a}s tuvo una relaci{\'o}n seria con una mujer de la que se sent{\'i}a enamorado. Como resultado, sus poemas de amor son sobre mujeres inexistentes, meras figuraciones de su imaginaci{\'o}n. En estos poemas, hay unos en que las trata con cari{\~n}o; se imagina c{\'o}mo ser{\'i}a la mujer que idealiza; las describe desde una {\'o}ptica humor{\'i}stica, no exenta de erotismo; o critica su inherente inferioridad por ser mujer. Pero es en dos escritos en prosa que afloran su misoginia y una actitud de implacable hostilidad. En una ponencia deplora que las mujeres de su tiempo ya no sean prisioneras en su casa, literalmente enjauladas por verjas; en otra se opone a que reciban educaci{\'o}n universitaria y opinen en materia de pol{\'i}tica. Lo que llama la atenci{\'o}n es que su exigencia de que las mujeres de su clase social fuesen modelos de virtud, cat{\'o}licas, v{\'i}rgenes hasta el matrimonio y luego madres dedicadas a criar hijos/as y servir a sus maridos, era ya en su tiempo un anacronismo, dado que la posici{\'o}n de algunas mujeres intelectuales nicarag{\"u}enses estaba al d{\'i}a con sus contrapartes extranjeras durante la primera ola feminista mundial. Adem{\'a}s, contradice radicalmente su estilo de vida personal, en el que es sabido que ten{\'i}a relaciones sexuales con mujeres pobres, a menudo ind{\'i}genas o mestizas que trabajaban en las cantinas que frecuentaba, lo cual trae a colaci{\'o}n asuntos de etnicidad, clase, poder y g{\'e}nero.

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As several literary critics have already pointed out, the theme of love in Joaqu{\'i}n Pasos's poetry is somewhat elusive. It seems Pasos never had a serious relationship with a woman he was in love with. Consequently, his love poems deal with nonexistent women, mere figments of his imagination. In some of these poems, he treats them with affection; he imagines what the woman he idealizes would be like; he describes them from a humorous, albeit erotic, perspective; or he criticizes their inherent inferiority simply for being women. But it is in two prose texts that his misogyny and an attitude of implacable hostility surface. In one, he laments that the women of his time are no longer prisoners in their homes, literally caged behind bars; in another, he opposes their receiving a university education and expressing their opinions on political matters. What is striking is that her demand that women of her social class be models of virtue-Catholic, virgins until marriage, and then mothers dedicated to raising their children and serving their husbands-was already an anachronism in her time, given that the stance of some Nicaraguan intellectuals was in line with that of their foreign counterparts during the first wave of global feminism. Furthermore, it radically contradicts her personal lifestyle, in which she is known to have had sexual relations with poor women, often Indigenous or mestizo, who worked in the bars she frequented, raising questions of ethnicity, class, power, and gender.}
}