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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453172003321

Autore

Lugones Leopoldo

Titolo

Leopold Lugones--Selected Writings [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

ISBN

1-281-34700-0

0-19-972128-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Collana

Library of Latin America

Altri autori (Persone)

KirkpatrickGwen

WaismanSergio

Disciplina

868/.6208

Soggetti

Lugones, Leopoldo

Romance Literatures

Languages & Literatures

Spanish Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Introduction; FICTION: SHORT STORIES; The Rain of Fire; Yzur; Viola Acherontia; The Pillar of Salt; The Escuerzo; The Horses of Abdera; ESSAYS, ADDRESSES, AND NONFICTION; 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; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

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