Uruguayan literature

Uruguayan literature

=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.

"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, Mario Benedetti and Jorge Majfud.

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

Jorge Luis Borges, while Argentinian, was an avid commentator on the Uruguayan historical and cultural scene, and recent litertary criticism by leading Colorado Presidential front-runner Pedro Bordaberry has demonstrated the live nature of Borges' writings in Uruguay. (See also: Pedro_Bordaberry#Literary_criticism.)

Florencio Sánchez remains Uruguay's most famous theater writer.

ee also

* List of Uruguayan writers
* Latin American literature


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