José Luis Martínez Rodríguez (b. 1918 in Atoyac, Jalisco; d. 2007, Mexico City) was a Mexican academic, diplomat, essayist, historian, bibliographer and editor. He was the director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica from 1977 to 1982 and professor of literature with the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[1]
His personal library was one of the largest in Mexico; it has been preserved in the National Library.
Director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica
During his leadership of the Fondo de Cultura Económica, over 700 new titles were published and he created the Revistas Literarias Mexicanas Modernas collection, which reprinted, in facsimile editions, the most important literary magazines published in Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century. He also worked on rebuilding the general catalog by reissuing 1,084 titles of continuing cultural significance.
Selected works
America Antigua: Nahua, Mayas, Quechuas, Otras Culturas, (El Mundo Antiguo, VI), Secretaria de Educacion Publica (1976) ISBN968-290-106-5
El Trato con Escritores y Otros Estudios, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (1992) ISBN970-620-139-4
La Expresión Nacional: Letras Mexicanas del Siglo XIX, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1993) ISBN968-295-309-X
La Literatura Mexicana del Siglo XX, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1995) ISBN968-296-164-5
Pasajeros de Indias, Viajes Transatlánticos en el Siglo XVI, Alianza (1998) ISBN84-206-2355-5
