Alcides Arguedas
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Alcides Arguedas 🇧🇴

Alcides Arguedas Díaz (Known as "Alcides Arguedas")
Novelist, Historian, Sociologist, Diplomat, Author of Raza de bronce
Born 1879-07-15 🇧🇴 La Paz, Bolivia
Passed Away 1946-05-06 Chulumani, Yungas, Bolivia
Lifespan 66 years old
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Influential Bolivian novelist and sociological historian whose seminal 1919 novel 'Raza de bronce' pioneered indigenist literature in Latin America.

Biographical Record

Alcides Arguedas was born on July 15, 1879, in La Paz. After studying law and political science in Bolivia and sociology in Paris, he became one of South America's most provocative essayists. His 1909 essay Pueblo enfermo presented an uncompromising, pessimistic critique of Bolivian society and political caudillismo.

In 1919, Arguedas published Raza de bronce, widely hailed as the foundational masterpiece of the indigenist novel in Latin America, vividly exposing the brutal exploitation of Andean indigenous communities. He also authored a definitive multi-volume monumental Historia general de Bolivia and served as Bolivian minister in Colombia, Uruguay, and Spain.

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General Cemetery of La Paz
La Paz, Bolivia
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