Eugenio Cambaceres
Eugenio Cambaceres (1843–1888) was an
Biography
Cambaceres was born and died in
Quickly launching into politics, he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and was named secretary of the Club del Progreso in 1870, and in 1873 became Vice President of said organization. However, his denunciations of fraud within his own party led to his downfall, and although he was re-elected to the legislature in 1876 he soon resigned his post and left public life to devote himself to literature. From his career as a liberal politician, perhaps his most important contribution was a controversial tract in a local magazine advocating the separation of Church and State that was quite polemic at the time.
As a writer, he combined the
In 1885 he released his most significant novel, Sin Rumbo [Without Direction], where he offered good descriptions of the landscape of sexual pathology, including interesting anecdotes. The year before he died 1887, he published En la sangre (In the Blood), a story about the son of
Eugenio Cambaceres traveled to Europe and was in Paris when he died at 45 years of age, in 1888. His daughter, Rufina Cambaceres, was only four years old.
See also
References
- ^ (in Spanish) Biography Archived 2009-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- R. Anthony Castagnaro, The Early Spanish American Novel (1971), pp. 119–129.
- María Luisa Bastos, introduction to Sin rumbo (1971), pp. 7–29.
- J.P. Spicer-Escalante, Visiones patológicas nacionales: Lucio Vicente López, Eugenio Cambaceres y Julián Martel ante la distopía argentina finisecular. Gaithersburg, MD: Ediciones Hispamérica, 2006.
- J.P. Spicer-Escalante, "Novedad estética/Crítica social: Eugenio Cambaceres y Sin Rumbo. Eugenio Cambaceres, Sin Rumbo. Ed. J.P. Spicer-Escalante, Buenos Aires: StockCero, Inc., vii-xxvi.
- J.P. Spicer-Escalante, A Non-Imperial Eye/I: Europe as “Contact Zone” in Eugenio Cambaceres's Música sentimental (1884). Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos 3.1: 53–68.
- J.P. Spicer-Escalante, Civilización y barbarie: Naturalism's Paradigms of Self and Nationhood in Eugenio Cambaceres’ Sin rumbo (1885). Excavatio XIII: 299–309.