Arturo Capdevila
Arturo Capdevila (born March 14, 1889 in Córdoba , Province of Córdoba , † December 20, 1967 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine lecturer, lawyer and writer.
Capdevila studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and could this study in 1913 with his promotion to Dr. jur. successfully complete. He then worked as a lawyer for some time. Later he accepted a position at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and worked there until 1947 as “Prof. for Argentine literature ”.
He was a member of the Academia Argentina de Letras and the Academia Nacional de Historia . In 1948 he was awarded the Gran Premio de Honor de la SADE .
Works (selection)
- Poetry
- La fiesta del mundo . 1921.
- Jardines solos . 1911.
- El libro de lla noche . 1917.
- El libro del bosque . 1948.
- Melpómene . 1912.
- El poema de Nenúfar . 1915.
- Los romances argentinos . 1950.
- Plays
- El amor de Shahrazada . 1918.
- La casa de los fantasmas . 1926.
- Consumación de Sigmund Freud . 1946.
- Cuando el vals y los lanceros . 1937.
- El divino marqués . 1930 (deals with Donatien Alphonse François de Sade ).
- El jardín de Eva .
- Zicalí . 1927 (deals with the composer Felipe Boero ).
- Non-fiction
- Alfonsina. Época, dolor y obra de la poetisa Alfonsina Storni . 1948.
- Historia de Dorrego . 1949.
- Las invasiones inglesas . 1938.
- Lugones . Aguilar, Buenos Aires 1973.
- Nueva imagen de Juan Manuel de Rosas . 1945.
- Remedios de Escalada .
- Rubén Darío . Un "bardo rei" . 1946.
- Translations
- El Popol Vuh .
literature
- RH Castigniano: El repertorio dramatico de Arturo Capdevila . In: Boletín de la Academia Argentina de Letras , Vol. 48 (1983), No. 189/190, pp. 239-265.
- Fermín Estrella Gutiérrez : Arturo Capdevila . Buenos Aires 1961.
- Juan C. Ghiano: Signiificado nacional de la obra de Arturo Capdevila . In: Boletín de la Academia Argentina de Letras , Vol. 48 (1983), No. 189/190, pp. 227-237.
- Dieter Reichardt (Ed.): Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , p. 26.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Capdevila, Arturo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian lecturer, lawyer and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cordoba , Province of Cordoba |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th December 1967 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |