| Leopoldo Lugones |
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Born in Villa De María Del Río Seco , the very traditional third city of the province of Córdoba , in Argentina 's Catholic heartland, Lugones belonged to a family of landed gentry. He first worked for La Montaña , a newspaper, and was in favour with the aristocratic Manuel Quintana , a candidate to become a President Of Argentina . This brought him first to Buenos Aires , where his literary talent developped quickly. Lugones was the leading Argentine exponent of the Latin America n literary current known as Modernismo . This was a form of Parnassianism influenced by Surrealism . He was also the author of the incredibly dense and rich novel '' La Guerra Gaucha '' ( 1905 ). He was an impassioned journalist, polemicist and public speaker who at first was a Socialist , later a Conservative / Traditionalist and finally a Fascist . He went to Europe in 1906 , 1911 , 1913 and in 1930 , in which latter year he supported the Coup D'état against the aging Radical party president, Hipólito Yrigoyen . In early 1938 , the despairing and disillusioned Lugones committed suicide by taking Cyanide whilst staying at the river resort of El Tigre, near Buenos Aires. POETRY
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