Macedonio Fernández

Macedonio Fernández was born in Buenos Aires on 1 June 1874, according to escritores.org and Tiempo Argentino. A doctor of law in 1897, he planned that same year, with two friends, a colony of anarchist inspiration, in the Argentine Chaco (in the Paraguayan jungle according to escritores.org). Widowed in 1920 by the death of Elena de Obieta, he entrusted their four children to relatives. He then wrote in boarding-house rooms and borrowed houses, according to Tiempo Argentino. He died on 10 February 1952.

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• EssayNo toda es vigilia la de los ojos abiertosMacedonio Fernández · 1928not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain