ArgentinaLiterature

Shad Whitesell

Literary BeginningsThe name of the country itself comes from a Latinism which first appeared in a literary source: Martin del Barco Centenera's epic poem La Argentina(1602).

This composition runs 10.000 verses and describes the landscape as well as the conquest of the territory. The word was reintroduces in Argentina manuscrita, a prose chronicle by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán.

Argentine literature began with the works of Martías Rojas de Oquendo and Pedro González de Prado around 1550.

They wrote prose and poetry partly inspired by oral aboriginal poetry

With the economic prosperity of Buenos Aires, the port become the focal point for the literary culture

Martin del Barco

Famous AuthorsVicente López y Planes

Second president of Argentina Studied in San Francisco School

and Real Colegio San Carlos Author of El triunfo argentino

José Hernádez Guacho literary Author of Martin Fierro

Supplied a historical link to the gauchos' contribution to the national development of Argentina

Written in a style that evokes the rural Argentina

Vicente López y Planes

Famous AuthorsGeneración del 37

A group of writers who are considered the first generation of local intellectuals

They met in 1837 as young students who gathered at the Literay Salon of Marcos Sastre, author of The Argentine Tempe Esteban Echeverria

El Matadero (The slaguhterhoouse) La Cautiva (The captive) Exiled by Buenos Argentina governor Juan Manuel de Rosas for his oppisition

José Mármol First Argentine Novel Amalia (1851)

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Facundo – an essay covering a revision of Facundo Quiiroga’s Life

Jaun Bautista Alberdi El Gigante Amapolas – an example of sainete or a short farcical opera piece

Juan Mariá Gutiérrez Physiognomy of Spanish learning Contributor to El Iniciador a periodical critical of Rosas, led to his

imprisonment Vicente Fidel López

La novia del hereje La loca de la guardia Histora de la Repúlica Argentina - ten issues covering Argentina’s history

CurrentToday Argentina's literary scene continues to thrive with contemporary writers taking influences from the country's own past as well as European and North American literature which is readily available throughout the country.Buenos Aires is often called the “City of Books”

There are librerias every few blocks Al Ateno is the largest bookstore in Latin

America, housed in a converted theaterArgentine authors continue to bring world attention.

Ernesto Sabato was nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature for his literary merits.

El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Recoleta

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