Enrique Larreta

Enrique Larreta (1875-1961)

Enrique Rodrguez Larreta, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires, March 4, 1875 - July 6, 1961). Author of La gloria de don Ramiro, one of the finest works representative of Hispanic modernism in which Don Ramiro, a soldier during the time of Philip II of Spain, embodies the Christian conflict between a life of the flesh and a life of the spirit. Larreta was a member of an ancient family of fortune and was married to Josefina Anchorena Castellanos, a daughter of one of most aristocratic, landowning families of Argentina, the Anchorenas. They had five children; Mercedes, Enrique (b.1902), Josefina (b.1905), Agustin (b.1909) and Fernando (b.1911). He studied law and worked as history teacher. In 1915-1916 he lived in Biarritz, France and in vila, Spain, where he met Miguel de Unamuno and a street now bears his name. As a playwright, his first piece, La lampe dargile, written in French, opened in Paris in 1917. This was followed by La luciernaga (1923; Firefly), El linyera (1932; The Bum), Santa Maria del Buen Ayre (1935), considered his best and Tenia que suceder (1943; It had to Happen). He served as ambassador to France (19101919) and to the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in Seville. He was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and spent a large part of his later years in Madrid. The cities of Alcal de Henares, Madrid and Segovia also have streets named after him. After his death his home in Buenos Aires became the Museo de Arte Espanol Enrique Larreta in 1962. Built by architect Ernesto Bunge in 1886, this Spanish Renaissance-style house is graced with an Andalusian palace garden; an unusual oasis in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires. When Larreta came back from Europe and settled in the Belgrano neighborhood he brought a vast collection of Spanish art and furniture from France. The Renaissance and Baroque collection makes the house feel like a Spanish museum and is mostly from the same period as his historical Don Ramiro novel. File:Museo de Arte Espaol Enrique Larreta esquina. jpg Larreta's house and now Museum of Spanish Art

Enrique Larreta's Books:

[La Gloria De Don Ramiro]