Eugenio Díaz

José Eugenio Díaz Castro was born in 1803 in Soacha, on the Bogotá savanna, into a family of small landowners. His schooling was basic; he farmed the land, kept a shop and began writing only after the age of fifty, encouraged by José María Vergara y Vergara, with whom he founded the newspaper El Mosaico, where his village chronicles appeared. His conservative friends corrected the drafts he sent them, as the author did not make fair copies. His thought belongs to a Christian socialism that passes judgement on the relations between landowners, priests and peasants. He died in Bogotá in 1865, after five years bedridden.

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• NovelManuelaEugenio Díaz · 1858not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain