Eugenio Cambaceres

Eugenio Cambaceres

Eugenio Cambaceres (born August 8, 1843 in Buenos Aires , † 1888 in Paris ) was an Argentine politician and writer .

Life

Cambaceres was the son of a French immigrant and his wife Rufina Alair, who was of Italian descent; the engineer and politician Antonio Cambaceres was his older brother.

Cambaceres studied law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and worked as a lawyer for a few years after successfully completing his studies. Politically interested and committed, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress. A scandal broke out under Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's presidency when Cambaceres introduced a legislative initiative to strictly separate church and state. Some time later, he publicly accused his own party of corruption and electoral fraud.

In 1876 Cambaceres resigned from all his political offices and devoted himself only to literature. He married Luisa Bacichi in his hometown and had a daughter with her, the later writer Rufina Cambaceres (1883-1902).

In 1888 Cambaceres made a trip to Europe. There he died in Paris at the age of 45.

Works (selection)

Single issues

• Potpourri. Novela . 1881.
• Silbidos de un vago. Novela . 1884
• Sin Rumbo. Novela . 1885.
• En la sangre. Novela . 1887.

Work edition

• Obras completas . Castellví, Santa Fe 1968 (edited by Eduardo M. Danero).

literature

• Patricia Bazán-Figueras: Eugenio Cambaceres. Precursor de la novela argentina contemporánea . Lang, New York 1994, ISBN 0-8204-2057-3 (American university studies / 22; 19).
• Claude Cymerman: La obra política y literaria de Eugenio Cambaceres (1843-1889). Del progresismo al conservadurismo . Corregidor, Buenos Aires 2007, ISBN 978-950-05-1682-2 .
• Pércio B. DeCastro: De la península hacia Latinoamérica. El naturalismo social en Emilia Pardo Bazán , Eugenio Cambaceres y Aluísio Azevedo . Lang, New York 1993, ISBN 0-8204-2105-7 .
• Alejandra Laera: El tiempo vacío de la ficción. Las novelas argentinas de Eduardo Gutiérrez y Eugenio Cambaceres . Fondo de cultura, Buenos Aires 2003, ISBN 950-557-616-1 .
• Klaus Meyer-Minnemann: The Spanish-American novel of the fin de siècle (research problems of comparative literary history; 6). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-484-60138-8 , pp. 128-147
• Jesús Péris Llorca: Gauchos en el mundo del 80. Leyendo a Eduardo Gutiérrez y Eugenio Cambaceres . University Press, Valencia 2003, ISBN 84-370-5745-0 .
• Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , pp. 23-24.
• Alejandra Tcachuk: Eugenio Cambaceres. Vida y obra . Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. 1976 (dissertation).

Web links

Wikisource: Eugenio Cambaceres  - Sources and full texts (Spanish)