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Biography of Ricardo GüiráldezName: Ricardo GüiráldezBirth Date: February 13, 1886 Death Date: October 8, 1927 Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina Nationality: Argentinian Gender: Male Occupations: writer, poet, novelist, author Ricardo Güiráldez The Argentinian poet and novelist Ricardo Güiráldez (1886-1927) is most widely known for his evocative novel Don Segundo Sombra, about the passing away of the gaucho's style of life.Ricardo Güiráldez was born in Buenos Aires on Feb. 13, 1886, into a distinguished Argentine family. As an infant, he was taken to Paris, where he learned French before Spanish. He was a world traveler from his earliest years and, in a sense, adopted Paris as his spiritual home. Yet he always maintained a deep love for the Argentine pampa and, especially, for the family ranch, La Porteña, at San Antonio de Areco. His university education was spotty, as he shifted from architecture to law, finishing neither.However, a genuine passion for literature was awakened in Güiráldez through the intensive but informal reading he did during these student years. The …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…iráldez was able to catch on these pages the essence of a way of life, as seen through the eyes of a ranch boy, and, by means of a highly sensitive prose style, infuse that special type of existence--the disappearing way of the gaucho--with a near-mythical quality.This was the culmination of Güiráldez's life. Shortly after the publication of Don Segundo Sombra, the author discovered he was afflicted with Hodgkin's disease. In March 1927 he left for the last time for Paris, in vain search for a cure. On October 8 of that year he died in Paris. Associated Works Don Segundo Sombra Further Reading The principal study of Güiráldez in English is Giovanni Previtali, Ricardo Güiráldez and Don Segundo Sombra: Life and Works (1963). See also Enrique Andersonlmbert, Spanish-American Literature: A History (1954; trans. 1963; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1969). |