Leopoldo Lugones: selected writings
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…
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- Full title :Leopoldo Lugones : selected writings / translated from the Spanish by Sergio Waisman ; edited with an introduction by Gwen Kirkpatrick.
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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 transm.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 111 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199721283, 0199721289, 9780198038795, 0198038798, 1281347000, 9781281347008, 9786611347000, 6611347003, 9780199938889, 0199938881
- oclc:ocn252697404
- LC Classification:PQ7797.L85
- Dewey Decimal:868/.6208
Table of Contents
The rain of fire -- Yzur -- Viola acherontia -- The pillar of salt -- The escuerzo -- The horses of Abdera -- This country's politicians II -- The morality of art -- Prologue to the first edition of Lunario sentimental (Sentimental lunarium) -- The ayacucho address -- On immigration -- The holiday of the proletariat.
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