Hilario Ascasubi

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Hilario Ascasubi

Hilario Ascasubi (born January 14, 1807 in Bell Ville , Cordoba Province , † November 17, 1875 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentinian writer.

Life

Hilario Ascasubi was the son of the merchant Mariano Ascasubi and his wife Loreta de Elía. He was born on the wagon his mother took to her wedding in Buenos Aires.

Under Juan Manuel de Rosas , Ascasubi fought against the Spaniards after the May Revolution in the War of Independence. He then went into exile in Uruguay and settled in Montevideo . There he ran a bakery. During this time most of his literary works were created under the pseudonym Paulino Lucero. His main work is Santos Vega y Los mellizo de La flor (Santos Vega and the Flor Twins), a verse tale about a “courageous, macho, thick-headed gaucho” Hilario Ascasubi is one of the main exponents of the gaucho idealizing gaucho literature .

At the age of 68, Hilario Ascasubi died on November 17, 1875 in Buenos Aires, where he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

  • Aniceto el Gallo . Fondo de Cultura económica, Mexico 1984, ISBN 968-16-1557-3 (Poesía gauchesca; 2).
  • El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números .
  • Paulino Lucero ó los gauchos del Rió de La Plata. Cantadoy combatiendo contra los tiranos de las républicas Argentina y oriental del Uruguay 1839 á 1851 . 2nd ed. Peuser, Buenos Aires 1900.
  • Santos Vega y Los mellizo de La flor. Rasgos dramáticos de la vida del gaucho en las campañas y praderas de la República Argentina (1778-1808) . Secretaria del Cultura de la Nación, Buenos Aires 1994, ISBN 950-507-395-X .
  • Unitarios y federales . Editorial Ameghino, Rosario 1998, ISBN 987-9216-49-0 (together with Esteban Echeverría and José Mármol ).

literature

  • Manuel Mujica Láinez: Vidas de "Aniceto el Gallo" y de Anastasio el Pollo. Hilario Ascasubi y Estanislao del Campo . Elefante Blanco, Buenos Aires 2007, ISBN 978-987-9223-78-9 .
  • Lily Sosa de Newton: Genio y figura de Hilario Ascasubi . Universidad, Buenos Aires 1981 (Colección genio y figura; 34)
  • Brockhaus literature in 8 volumes, Volume 5, p. 215, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-411-11800-8 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hans-Otto Dill : History of Latin American Literature at a Glance . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999. p. 178.
  2. ↑ Hans-Otto Dill: History of Latin American Literature at a Glance . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999. In it the chapter Gaucho literature , pp. 178-182.
personal data
SURNAME Ascasubi, Hilario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Bell Ville , Province of Cordoba
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1875
Place of death Buenos Aires