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...
Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as...
Leopoldo Lugones El payador: the ultimate Martin Fierro textbook Leopoldo Lugones career as a poet and man of letters was undoubtedly hampered by his everchanging, but always passionate and sometimes questionable, political views. First an anarchist, then a socialist, finally a fascist, Lugones was a friend of Ruben Dario and the outstanding modernista poet of Argentina. His early volumes ( Las montanas de oro the golden mountains] (1897), Los crepusculos del jardin twilights in the garden] (1905), and El lunario sentimental sentimental almanac] (1909) were influenced by Victor Hugo and...
Leopoldo Lugones El payador: the ultimate Martin Fierro textbook Leopoldo Lugones career as a poet and man of letters was undoubtedly hampered by his ...
El angel de la sombra narra los infortunios del amor secreto entre Luisa Almeida, hija de una familia patricia de Buenos Aires, y Carlos Suarez Vallejo, poeta, pobre y -en apariencia- plebeyo. La intriga se organiza con arreglo a las doctrinas teosoficas que Lugones cultiva desde su juventud y que se encuentran a lo largo del libro; Luisa es, en realidad, un angel, caido a la condicion carnal con la mision de redimir a Suarez Vallejo y prepararlo para cumplir un destino superior."
El angel de la sombra narra los infortunios del amor secreto entre Luisa Almeida, hija de una familia patricia de Buenos Aires, y Carlos Suarez Vallej...