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Romulo Gallegos (1884) 1969), novelist and Venezuelan politician, made university studies of Surveying and Law at the Central University of their country, but did not finish them. He railroad employee and teacher in private schools, became deputy director of the Normal School and director of the Liceo de Caracas. In his early narrator, Gallegos published Adventurers (a collection of stories). …

Important Venezuelan poet, member of the “Generation 28”, he was born on August 1, 1896 in Cumana. Andrés Eloy Blanco attended primary school and part of the middle, completing their education in Caracas, graduating from the Central University of Doctor in political and social sciences. From a young age he showed great literary talent, which was recognized in various competitions. …

CANDIDO LOPEZ 1/3 – He was an Argentinian painter (photographer and soldier), who worked in the Naïve style. In September 1866 he was wounded at the Battle of Curupaytí, and lost part of his right arm. When he regains health gradually begins to educate his left hand, which does most of his known work. Although right-handed, he taught himself to …

All of the scholars on Paraguayan literature, say that his work is the starting point of a new poetic conception. His poetry, retains the imprint of exile and political persecution. Europeans arrived in Paraguay in the sixteenth century, and the first residential settlement was the foundation of the city of Asunción. Herib Camposs Cervera was born in Asunción, Paraguay, on …

Augusto Roa Bastos es quizá el escritor paraguayo más conocido en el mundo (uno de los protagonistas de la narrativa lationoamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX). Escribió casi toda su obra en el exilio. Se estableció en Francia, donde ejerció el periodismo y la docencia universitaria. La obra de Roa Bastos se caracteriza por armonizar el legado guaraní …

Paraguayan Music and Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELb3SSvCJEM Traditional Paraguayan Harp Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7UcQ8R7M0 Agustín Barrios: Classics of the Americas: Paraguay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKdZxkrq-eQ Ausencia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OBT6359NtY

Paraguay is divided in two by the Rio Paraguay to the east of the river is the Oriente, to the west is the Chaco). This is a country with a past, a place with a romantic’s soul. Historically, Paraguay has been a place to disappear. Paraguay is a country with a twisting, turning, complicated past that, at one time in …

XUL SOLAR 1/3 – He was the creator of twelve painting techniques, some of them surrealist, and others that transpose a sensory. He was born in the bosom of a cosmopolitan family (his mother, originally from Italy). He was a Argentine painter, sculptor, writer and inventor of imaginary languages. During the years of the WWI, he struck up what was …

Argentina folk music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZcuW3xFRMw The best Argentina tango music, instrumental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZfgd4TMsHI Argentina Music – Cuculi by Los Calchakis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkY1MZDmomw Hang Musica Argentina – LiveMetalArt Handpan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iysjz74yFVc

The first books that he read (from the library of his father, a man of wide-ranging intellect who taught at an English school), included The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His family, which had been notable in Argentine history, included British ancestry, and he learned English before Spanish. His first published book …

AMOR – Juan Ramón Jiménez El amor, ¿a qué huele? Parece, cuando se ama, que el mundo entero tiene rumor de primavera. Las hojas secas tornan y las ramas con nieve, y él sigue ardiente y joven, oliendo a la rosa eterna. Por todas partes abre guirnaldas invisibles, todos sus fondos son líricos -risa o pena, la mujer a su …