Biography of Leopoldo Lugones

(1874-06-13 - 1938/02/18)

Leopoldo Lugones
Argentine writer

He was born on June 13, 1874 in Maria Villa of the dry river, province of Córdoba.
He learned the first letters of the hand of his mother Doña custody Arguello and she received a strict Catholic education.
He studied secondary education at the Colegio Nacional de Córdoba, highlighted by his rebelliousness both its application. In this provincial city starts eighteen years in journalism and literature. He had contact with socialism (was one of its pioneers in Argentina), liberalism, conservatism and since 1924, fascism. He made trips through Europe and lived in Paris before the First world war. Back in Argentina, was the director of the literary supplement of La Nación and librarian of the Board of education.
As a poet, he began in 1897 with the mountains of gold, measured and free verse, and poetic prose, full emergence of modernism. This decadent atmosphere extends in the Twilights of the garden (1905) and Lunario sentimental (1909), always influenced by Rubén Darío. His poetic record then changes with the secular Odes (1910), exaltation of the Argentine riches inspired by Virgil. His poetry becomes intimate and everyday in the faithful book (1912), the book of landscapes (1917) and Golden hours (1922). In her narrative poetry are titles such as doorsteps poems (1927) and the posthumous Romance of the Río Seco. As storyteller writes strange forces (1906) and fatal tales (1926), which develop fantasy literature that is linked with Horacio Quiroga and announces to Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar.
The historical narrative about the war of independence encourages the Gaucho war and esoteric meditations of Theosophy, a forgettable novel, the angel of the shadow (1926). In the field of history include the Jesuit Empire (1904), History of Sarmiento (1911) and El payador (1916). Parts of The Iliad of Homer translated and studied aspects of the filings of Hephaestus in classical Greece and the two series of Hellenic Studies. The evolution of his political thought can be traced in books as my belligerence, strong homeland and the grande Argentina.
Leopoldo Lugones committed suicide in San Fernando, Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 18, 1938.