Uruguayan literature

Literature of Uruguay
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Uruguayan literature has a long and eventful history.

Beginnings

Literature properly speaking starts in Uruguay with the country-flavoured poetry of Bartolomé Hidalgo, 1788-1822. The two leading figures of the Romantic period are Adolfo Berro and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín.ll

Modernistas

Julio Herrera y Reissig was one of the great fin-de-siècle modernistas, indeed one of the very greatest and subtlest of Latin American poets. Two leading women are Juana de Ibarbourou and Delmira Agustini; indeed, Ibarbourou defined a whole period of Spanish-American sentiment towards the poetic and was immensely popular. Emilio Frugoni and Emilio Oribe were distinguished lyricists.

Other important figures

Outstanding among the prose and fiction figures are Juan Carlos Onetti, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Eduardo Galeano, Felisberto Hernández, Mario Benedetti, Tomás de Mattos, Mauricio Rosencof and Jorge Majfud.

Horacio Quiroga was an immensely popular playwright as well as highly individual and flavourful short-story writer who has had vast influence.[1] Constancio C. Vigil was once a beloved, if highly moralistic, children's writer.

Jorge Luis Borges, while Argentine, was an avid commentator on the Uruguayan historical and cultural scene; some of his characters are realistically Uruguayan. Florencio Sánchez remains Uruguay's most famous theater writer.

Writers from Northern Uruguay

While many of Uruguay's writers have been primarily connected with the capital Montevideo, a number have been identified with the north of the country.

See also

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References

  1. ^ "Horacio Quiroga | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-10-04.

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