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Leopold Lugones--Selected Writings eBook

by Leopoldo Lugones
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, March of 2008 ‧
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Argentina''s best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones''s work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) were early examples of the fantastic in Latin American fiction and influenced Borges, Quiroga, and others They reflect an interest in the uncanny and inspired contemporary interest in animism and occultism because the protagonists of many the stories were scientists and doctors experimenting in the transmutation of thought. His prose works include La Guerra Gaucha (1905) and the essay El Payador (1916) in which he idealized the gaucho as a heroic figure, popular poet, and a symbol of Argentine identity. Lugones altered his political views many times, adopting radical anarchism, and later in life, fascism. He was therefore a controversial figure, both accalimed and scorned by his contemporaries. His adherence to the importance of literary form drew criticism from the new generation of writers, such as Borges, but Borges later stated in 1955 that "Lugones was and continues to be the greatest Argentine writer."

Leopold Lugones--Selected Writings

by Leopoldo Lugones

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ISBN: 9780199938889
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: March of 2008
Language: English
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Lugones (Villa de María del Río Seco, 1874 – Buenos Aires, 1938), é autor de vários volumes de prosa, onde se contam romances, ensaios, escritos políticos, peças de teatro e uma importante obra poética, que inicia com a publicação de Las Montañas del Oro, em 1897, e se impõe com Lunario Sentimental, de 1909, Odas Seculares, de 1910, ou, em tom épico, Romancero, de 1924.
Nos seus contos, incluídos nos volumes As Forças Estranhas, de 1906, e Cuentos Fatales, de 1926, expõe a crise de consciência religiosa, o cientificismo ou o elogio do decadentismo de finais do século, convertendo-se no grande precursor da literatura fantástica na Argentina. A par da sua atividade literária, Lugones desempenhou um papel ativo na vida social e política do seu país. Foi diretor, de 1915 até à sua morte, da Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros em Buenos Aires e, em 1928, fundou a Sociedade Argentina de Escritores.
O seu polémico percurso político, de cariz nacionalista, levou-o a tomar posições extremas, primeiro professando o ideal socialista, mais tarde dando o seu apoio ao golpe que, em 1930, instaura uma ditadura no seu país. Viria a falecer suicida.

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