A Companion to José Enrique Rodó

The first comprehensive intellectual biography of one of the greatest cultural figures of the Spanish-speaking world. This Companion to José Enrique Rodó (1871-1917) is the first comprehensive intellectual biography in English of the great Latin Americanist, stylist, and writer on the ethical and aesthetic development of the youth of his subcontinent. Rodó is best known for his essay Ariel (1900), which marked the consolidation of modernity in Latin America in the wake of mass immigration and Sp