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Selected Writings (Paperback)
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Selected Writings (Paperback)
Series: Library of Latin America
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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."
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