Baldomero Lillo
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Baldomero Lillo (6 January 1867, in Lota, Chile – 10 September 1923, in San Bernardo, Chile) was a Chilean Naturalist author. His works focused on social protest.[1]
Early life
Lillo's father traveled to California to participate in the 1848 Gold Rush, where he learned about mining, but returned without a fortune. He moved to Lota, Chile, to work in the coal mines. Baldomero Lillo grew up in these mining communities and worked in the mines.
Career
During this time, he was exposed to the writings of the French author Émile Zola, who used the philosophy of Positivism and the literary current of Naturalism to challenge the conditions of French coal mines. Lillo observed similar conditions in Chilean mines and set out to improve the condition of the workers by dramatizing their plight. Lillo wrote many short stories (collected in Sub Sole and Sub Terra that sparked the interest of social activists.
See also
References
- ↑ Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel; Filer, Malva E. (2004). Voces de Hispanoamérica: antología literaria (in Spanish). Thomson/Heinle. ISBN 978-0-8384-1653-2.
Sources
- Adams, Nicholson B., et al. Hispanoamérica en su literatura. (2nd ed.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1993, pp. 225–234.
- Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel. Voces de Hispanoamérica. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2004, pp. 258–267.
- Child, Jack. Introduction to Latin American Literature: a Bilingual Anthology. Lanham: University Press of America,1994, pp. 197–210.
- Englekirk, John E. An Outline History of Spanish American Literature. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1965, pp. 92–93.
- Mujica, Bárbara. Texto y vida: introducción à la literatura hispanoamericana. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 p. 343.
External links
- Works by or about Baldomero Lillo at the Internet Archive
- Works by Baldomero Lillo at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 19th-century Chilean novelists
- 19th-century male novelists
- 19th-century Chilean male writers
- Chilean male novelists
- People from Lota, Chile
- 1867 births
- 1923 deaths
- 20th-century Chilean novelists
- 20th-century male novelists
- 20th-century Chilean male writers
- 19th-century Chilean short story writers
- 20th-century Chilean short story writers
- Chilean male short story writers