Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 111 pages) |
Series |
Library of Latin America |
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Library of Latin America.
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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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111) |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Lugones, Leopoldo, 1874-1938 -- Translations into English
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SUBJECT |
Lugones, Leopoldo, 1874-1938. fast (OCoLC)fst00016648 |
Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Genre/Form |
Translations.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Waisman, Sergio Gabriel.
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Kirkpatrick, Gwen.
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ISBN |
9780199721283 |
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0199721289 |
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9780198038795 |
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0198038798 |
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1281347000 |
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9781281347008 |
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9786611347000 |
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6611347003 |
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9780199938889 |
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0199938881 |
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