Leopold Lugones--Selected Writings |
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| Author:
| Lugones, Leopoldo
Waisman, Sergio |
| Editor:
| Kirkpatrick, Gwen |
| Series title: | Library of Latin America Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-517405-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $32.50 |
Book Description:
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Here is a collection of stories, political writings, and literary essays by the man whom Borges called "the greatest Argentine writer. 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...
More DescriptionHere is a collection of stories, political writings, and literary essays by the man whom Borges called "the greatest Argentine writer. 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.