By Leopoldo Lugones
Argentina's best-known author in the course of his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's paintings spans many literary kinds and ideological positions. He was once influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and likewise because the poet of Argentine nature. His brief tales (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) have been early examples of the wonderful in Latin American fiction and prompted Borges, Quiroga, and others They replicate an curiosity within the uncanny and encouraged modern curiosity in animism and occultism as the protagonists of many the tales have been scientists and medical professionals experimenting within the transmutation of concept. His prose works contain La Guerra Gaucha (1905) and the essay El Payador (1916) within which he idealized the gaucho as a heroic determine, well known poet, and a logo of Argentine identification. Lugones altered his political beliefs time and again, adopting radical anarchism, and later in lifestyles, fascism. He used to be for that reason a debatable determine, either accalimed and scorned by way of his contemporaries. His adherence to the significance of literary shape drew feedback from the recent iteration of writers, reminiscent of Borges, yet Borges later acknowledged in 1955 that "Lugones used to be and is still the best Argentine writer."
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Argentina's best-known author in the course of his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's paintings spans many literary kinds and ideological positions. He used to be influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and likewise because the poet of Argentine nature. His brief tales (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) have been early examples of the wonderful in Latin American fiction and inspired Borges, Quiroga, and others.
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I came back early, worn out. Never had I taken refuge in bed more grateful to feel the heaviness of sleep. I woke up soaked in perspiration, my eyes clouded over, my throat dry. There was a murmuring of rain outside. Searching for something, I leaned against the wall, and a tremor of fear snapped like a whip through my body. The wall was hot and vibrating silently. It was almost unnecessary for me to open the window to realize what was happening. The rain of fiery copper had returned, but this time dense and constant.
3 The rain of fire had perhaps ceased, for the servants gave no sign of having noticed it. Suddenly, the slave crossing the garden with a new dish was unable to hold back a scream. Although he was able to reach the table, his pallor revealed a horrible pain. On his naked back he had a small hole, at the bottom of which could still be heard the sizzling of the voracious spark that 3 had opened it. We drowned it out with oil, and he was sent to his bed, unable to contain his laments. Abruptly I lost my appetite; and although I continued tasting the dishes so as to not demoralize the servants, they very quickly understood.
There is really no good reason why monkeys cannot articulate completely. Their natural language, which is to say the set of screams with which they communicate among themselves, is quite varied; their larynx, as different as it may be from that of humans, is not nearly as different as that of the parrot, which nonetheless speaks; and with regards to their brains, besides the fact that comparisons with birds should dismiss any doubt, suffice it to recall that the brain of a half-wit is also rudimentary, despite which there are some cretins who are able to utter a number of words.