Enrique Larreta

Enrique Larreta

Enrique Larreta , actually Enrique Rodríguez Larreta Maza (born March 4, 1875 in Buenos Aires , † July 6, 1961 ibid) was an Argentine diplomat and writer.

Life

Larreta came from a bourgeois family in Uruguay : his parents were Carlos Rodríguez Larreta († 1915) and Adela Augustina Maza Oribe († 1899). He completed his school days with the help of private tutors, then he studied law at the university in his hometown and graduated successfully in 1897.

Subsequently, Larreta began teaching medieval history at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires . On November 15, 1900, he married Josefina Anacleta Anchorena and had five children with her: Enrique (* 1902), Josefina (* 1905), Agustín (* 1909), Fernando (* 1911) and Mercedes. Larreta was connected to a very influential family through his marriage.

When Roque Sáenz Peña became president of Argentina in 1910, he sent Larreta to France as a diplomat. In 1915 Larreta settled in Ávila for a year , where he a. a. Miguel de Unamuno met. In 1919 he returned to Buenos Aires and devoted himself to writing for the rest of his life. For several years Larreta also lived in Seville , where he a. a. helped shape the Exposición Iberoamericana de Sevilla in 1929 .

Enrique Larreta died on July 6, 1961 in Buenos Aires at the age of 86 and was buried in La Recoleta Cemetery . His house in Belgrano , which the architect Ernesto Bunge (1839–1913) designed in 1886, including a large park, was converted in 1962 into the Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta .

Honors

The cities of Alcalá de Henares , Ávila, Madrid and Segovia named streets in his honor.

Memberships

• from 1919 member of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina
• from 1929 member of the Real Academia Española

reception

Larreta's work spans an arc from Vanguardia to Modernismo . He has written novels, plays and several volumes of poetry; his most famous work is the novel "La gloria de Don Ramiro". The fact that Larreta also collected art during his life can be seen in his house or the current museum.

Works (selection)

Poetry

• La calle de vida y de la muerte . 1941.
• Artemis . 1896.

memoirs

• La naranja . 1948.

Novels

• Don Ramiro. A novel from Philip II's Spain (La gloria de Don Ramiro, 1908). Manesse Verlag, Zurich 1958.
• Zogoibi. The unfortunate one. Novel (Zogoibi. Novela, 1926). Libreria Goethe, Buenos Aires 1942.
• En la pampa . 1955.

Plays

• La que buscaba Don Juan . 1923.
• Santa Maria del Buen Aire . 1936.
• La lampe dargile . 1917.
• Tenia que suceder . 1943.
• El linyera . 1932.

Work edition

• Obras completas . 1954.

literature

Essays

• Anonymous: La narratica modernista, Enrique Larreta (La Capítulo. La historia de la literatura argentina; Vol. 44). Centro de América Latina, Buenos Aires 1980.
• Pedro L. Barcia: Un texto desconocito de Enrique Larreta. Su primero relato . In: Cuadernos del sur , Vol. 11 (1969/71), pp. 210-225, ISSN  0070-1769 .
• Arturi B. Carisomo: Una reelaboración estilística de Enrique Larreta . In: Letras de Buenos Aires , Vol. 6/7 (1982/83), pp. 57-66, ISSN  0326-2928 .
• Sofía I. Cardona Colom: Ironía y sensibilidad modernista "La gloria de Don Ramiro" de Enrique Larreta . In: Hispania. A journal devoted to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese , Vol. 73 (1990), No. 3, pp. 626-632, ISSN  0018-2133 .
• Benito Varela Jácombe: Las novelas de Enrique Larreta . In: Arbor , Vol. 51 (1962), Issue 195, pp. 66-76, ISSN  0210-1963 .
• André Jansen: ¿For Enrique Larreta lazo intelectual entre Europa y América durante la primera parte del siglo XX? In: Carlos H. Maggis (ed.): Actas del tercer congreso internacional de hispanistas, celebrado en México, DF del 26 al 31 agosto de 1968 . Colegio de México, Mexico 1970.
• Manuel Mujica Láinez: Enrique Larreta en su casa . In: Boletín de la Academia Argentina de Letras , Vol. 31 (1966), Issue 121, pp. 399-417, ISSN  0001-3757 .
• Pedro M. Obligado: Enrique Larreta. Un artista copy . In: Boletín de la Academia Argentina de Letras , Vol. 112/113 (1965), pp. 147-159, ISSN  0001-3757 .

Monographs

• Manuel Antonio Arango: Literatura y conciencia social en nueve escritores representativos de Hispanoamérica. Enrique Larreta, Miguel Angel Asturias , Juan Rulfo , Alejo Carpentier , Isabel Allende , Eduardo Caballero Calderón , Manuel Mejía Vallejo , Gabriel García Márquez y Alvaro Cepeda . Editorial Pliego, Madrid 2003, ISBN 84-96045-11-0 .
• Hebe N. Campanella: Enrique Larreta. El hombre y el escritor . Marymar, Buenos Aires 1987, ISBN 950-503-153-X .
• Arturi Berenguer Carisomo: Los valores eternos en la obra de Enrique Larreta . Sopena Argentina, Buenos Aires 1946.
• Tharsis D. Colon Ortiz: Cumbres del modernismo en Hispanoamérica. Enrique Larreta . San Juan, 1983.
• André Jansen: Enrique Larreta. Novelista hispano-argentio 1873-1961 . Editorial Cultura Hispánica, Madrid 1967.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See also: Parque Anchorena in Uruguay.

Web links

• Enrique Larreta's biography at Genealogiafamilar.net
• Biography of Enrique Larreta at Biografias y Vidas .