Eduardo Acevedo DÃaz
Eduardo Acevedo Díaz ( born April 20, 1851 in Montevideo, † June 18, 1921 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Uruguayan writer and politician.
Life
Eduardo Acevedo Díaz studied in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo and was ibid. first politically active. Acevedo Díaz participated in the Revolución Revolución Blanca and the Tricolor and supported the political views of the conservative Partido Nacional of Uruguay. As of 17 August 1906 he was Uruguayan Ambassador to Argentina. In this office he was succeeded on August 7, 1908 by Gonzalo Ramírez.
His literary works were influenced by the prevailing to lifetimes of Acevedo Díaz naturalism and realism in Latin America and include the literary romanticism of that era. Eduardo Acevedo Díaz is considered in his native Uruguay as the first Uruguayan writer of short stories.
Works
- Brenda
- Ismael
- Nativa
- La boca del tigre
- La novela histórica
- Etnologia indígena
- Grito de gloria
- Soledad
- Mines
- Lanza y sable
Stories
- Un sepulcro en los bosques
- El primer Suplicio
- El combate de la tapera
- Desde el tronco de un ombú
Pieces
- Política Carta
- La Civilización americana. Ensayos históricos
- La última palabra del proscrito
- Épocas militares en el Río de la Plata
- Libro del pequeño ciudadano