Julio Herrera y Reissig

Julio Herrera y Reissig was born on 9 January 1875 in Montevideo, into a patrician family: he was the son of Manuel Herrera y Obes and the nephew of a future President of the Republic. A heart defect, aggravated by typhoid fever, made him leave school at seventeen. From 1900 he gathered writers in the attic of the family house, known as the Tower of the Panoramas for its view over the Río de la Plata. Apart from a stay in Buenos Aires, he scarcely left Montevideo and the interior of the country. He died in Montevideo in March 1910, at the age of thirty-five.

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• PoetryLa torre de las esfingesJulio Herrera y Reissig · 1909not translated into EnglishLiterature