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Pot Pourri: Whistlings of an Idler
Author(s): Eugenio Cambaceres (Author), Lisa Dillman (Author), Josefina Ludmer (Editor)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: May 1, 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195144643
- ISBN-13: 9780195144642
Book Description
Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and especially for the role of the intellectual during that transition. This gereation theoretically and methodically built up a literature with features of its own, stressing the cultural primacy of Buenos Aires par excellence, to enhance the evolution of the cosmopolitan metropolis.
A rich dandy narrates
Pot Pourri, relating a story of marriage and adultery during the carnival celebrations. The volume editor, Josefina Ludmer, describes the dandy as an ambiguous protagonist who acts both as a reflection and a critic of the liberal state. As a new addition to the already-acclaimed Library of Latin America, Pot Pourri should find its rightful place with the ever-growing audience for Latin American literature.
