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México: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico [UNAM], 1942. First Mexican Edition (presumed). xxiii, [1], 131, [1] pages, 1 leaf including portrait 19 cm Minor soling and wear to wraps; else clean and tight within; very good. Small chip to rear wrap. Paperback.

Seminal essay by this Uruguayan writer. "José Enrique Camilo Rodó Piñeyro (1871 – 1917) was a Uruguayan essayist. He cultivated an epistolary relationship with important Hispanic thinkers of that time, Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) in Spain, José de la Riva-Agüero in Peru, and, most importantly, with Rubén Darío, the most influential Latin American poet to date, the founder of modernismo. As a result of his refined prose style and the modernista ideology he pushed, Rodó is today considered the preeminent theorist of the modernista school of literature."—Wikipedia.