Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg

Sandra Gasparini (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Ed. by Anna Forné, Gothenburg University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 1852
Died 1937

Places

Active in Argentina

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Holmberg's Works

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Towards the end of the 19th century, Eduardo L. Holmberg managed a vast fictional repertoire that combined automatons, ghosts, necromancer naturalists, and telepathic women with militant Darwinians, inventors otologists, and

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that transmigrated to Mars. The irony, humor and suspicion of his prose, along with encyclopedism and experimentation with modern genres, such as scientific fantasy and the police novel, are the hallmarks of his literary narratives. In his travel books, as a product of his scientific expeditions commissioned by the Argentine State, he harmonized his adventurous stamp, his keen observations as a physician and naturalist, and his experience as a writer and reader of fiction.

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, on July 27, 1852, as son of

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Citation: Gasparini, Sandra. "Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 September 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14745, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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