Echeverría, Esteban

Echeverría, Esteban

▪ Argentine writer
born September 2, 1805, Buenos Aires, Argentina
died January 19, 1851, Montevideo, Uruguay

      poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his sponsoring efforts. He is one of the most important Romantic authors in Latin America.

      Echeverría spent five decisive years in Paris (1825–30), where he absorbed the spirit of the Romantic movement, then in its heyday in France. He became one of the movement's promoters once he returned to Argentina. He was a member of the group of young Argentine intellectuals who organized in 1838 the Asociación de Mayo (“May Organization,” after the month of Argentina's independence). This institution aspired to develop a national literature responsive to Argentina's social and physical reality. Echeverría also devoted himself to the overthrow of the Juan Manuel de Rosas (Rosas, Juan Manuel de) dictatorship. In 1840 he was forced to go into exile in nearby Uruguay, where he stayed until his death.

      Echeverría's renown as a writer rests on his powerful story "El matadero" ( "The Slaughterhouse" ), a landmark in the history of Latin American literature. "The Slaughterhouse," probably written in 1838, was not published until 30 years later. It is mostly significant because it displays the clash between “civilization and barbarism,” between European mores and more primitive and violent American ways. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino), another great Argentine writer and thinker, saw this clash at the core of Latin American culture. Read in this light, "The Slaughterhouse" is a political allegory. Its more specific intention was to accuse Rosas of protecting the kind of thugs who murder the cultivated young protagonist at the Buenos Aires slaughterhouse. Rosas and his henchmen stand for barbarism, the slain young man for civilization. Echeverría's La cautiva (“The Captive Woman”), a long narrative poem about a white woman abducted by the Indians, is also among the better-known works of 19th-century Latin American literature.

Roberto González Echevarría
 

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