Rafael Obligado
Rafael Obligado ( born January 27, 1851 in Buenos Aires, † March 8, 1920 in Mendoza) was an Argentine writer.
Life
Obligado came from a very wealthy family; he was a son of Luis Obligado y Saavedra and his wife María Jacinta Ortiz Urien. His childhood and youth spent Obligado on the ancestral home of the family near the city of Paraná ( Entre Ríos ) on the Río Paraná. Hence its honorific nickname el poeta del Paraná.
He began law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires to study, but abandoned his studies after a few semesters because of lack of interest from. On his support the establishment of the " philosophical faculty " of the University goes back.
Although he returned again and again to Paraná, he lived most of the time in Buenos Aires. There he married and had two sons, Pedro Miguel and Carlos, the writers were also later. Obligado invited regularly to literary meetings in his home in Buenos Aires. Nearly thirty years took place this meeting of writers and artists and were a European salon in nothing.
Works (selection)
Throughout his life Obligado a patriot; yet he left his literary debut in Paris manufacture. In 1855 he published his anthology of poetry " POESIAS " in a very costly issue. A second edition in 1906, much simpler than the first edition, but published yet far above the average.
In "Santos Vega " focuses Obligado life and work of a Payadors; a subject have dealt with even before Obligado Hilario Ascasubi, Eduardo Gutiérrez and Bartolomé Mitre.
- Leyendas argentinas. La Bolsa de las libras, Montevideo 1920.
- POESIAS. Neuaufl. Editorial Sopena Argentina, Buenos Aires 1963.
- Santos Vega. Neuaufl. Editorial colihue, Buenos Aires, 1987, ISBN 950-081-035-2.