Leopoldo Lugones

Infobox Writer
name =Leopoldo Lugones

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birthdate = birth date|1874|6|13|df=y
birthplace = Villa de María del Río Seco¹
deathdate = death date and age|1938|2|18|1874|6|13|df=y
deathplace = El Tigre
occupation = Journalist, Writer
genre = Fantasy, Christian apologetics, Catholic apologetics, Mystery
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Leopoldo Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 - 18 February 1938) was an Argentine writer and journalist.

Born in Villa de María del Río Seco, the traditional city of the province of Córdoba, in Argentina's Catholic heartland, Lugones belonged to a family of landed gentry. He first worked for La Montaña, a newspaper, and was in favour with the aristocratic Manuel Quintana, a candidate to become a president of Argentina. This brought him first to Buenos Aires, where his literary talent developed quickly.

Lugones was the leading Argentine exponent of the Latin American literary current known as Modernismo. This was a form of Parnassianism influenced by Symbolism. He was also the author of the incredibly dense and rich novel "La Guerra Gaucha" (1905). He was an impassioned journalist, polemicist and public speaker who at first was a Socialist, later a conservative/traditionalist and finally a supporter of Fascism.

Leopoldo Lugones went to Europe in 1906, 1911, 1913 and in 1930, in which latter year he supported the coup d'état against the aging Radical party president, Hipólito Yrigoyen.

In early 1938, the despairing and disillusioned Lugones committed suicide by taking a mixture of whisky and cyanide while staying at the river resort of El Tigre.

Poetry

*"Las montañas del oro" (1897)
*"Los crepúsculos del jardín" (1905)
*"Lunario sentimental" (1909)
*"Odas seculares" (1910)
*"El libro fiel" (1912)
*"El libro de los paisajes" (1917)
*"Las horas doradas" (1922)
*"Romances del río seco" (posthumously, 1939)

hort stories

*"Las fuerzas extrañas" 1906
*"Cuentos fatales" 1926

La Guerra Gaucha

"La guerra gaucha" ("The Gaucho War") is a 1942 Argentine historical drama and epic film directed by Lucas Demare and starring Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña, and Amelia Bence. The films script, written by Homero Manzi and Ulyses Petit de Murat, is based on the novel by Leopoldo Lugones published in 1905. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on November 20 1942 and is considered by critics in Argentine cinema as one of the most successful films in the history of the cinema. es iconDi Núbila, Domingo, "La época de oro. Historia del cine argentino I" pág. 392, 1998, Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Jilguero, ISBN 987-95786-5-1 ]

ee also

*Argentina
*List of Argentines