by Eugenio Cambaceres ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman ; edited and with an introduction by Josefina Ludmer.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
1 online resource (xxxviii, 144 pages).
Library of Latin America
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxvii-xxxviii).
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Introduction: Modernization and the Boundaries of the Periphery; Acknowledgments; A Few Words from the Author; Footnote; Chapter 1
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Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola. to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a. precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of. the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and. especially for the role of the intellectual during that transition. This gereation. theoretically and methodically built up a literature with features of its own,. stressing the cultural primacy of Buenos Aires par excellence, to enhance the. evolution of the co.