Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary HistoryThe most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The citys rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psycho-analysis even more widespread than New Yorks. |
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Alberto Alvear architect Argentine Avenida de Mayo avenue barrancas barrio norte Belgrano Boca bookshop Borges Buenos Aires building built Cabildo café Calle Corrientes Calle Florida Carlos Casa Rosada centre church city's Colón Confitería Córdoba corner Corrientes cultural Darío Enrique Evita evoked exile Ezequiel Martínez Estrada façade Fernández Moreno football founded Gálvez garden grand Horacio Hotel immigrants José Juan Julio Lavalle Leopoldo Leopoldo Lugones literary lived López Lugones Maipú Manuel Manuel Mujica Lainez marble María Martínez Estrada Museo museum named nearby novel novelist once opened palace Palermo pampas Parque Lezama patio Perón plaque Plaza de Mayo Plaza San Martín poem poet porteño President Pueyrredón Recoleta restaurant Riachuelo Rivadavia river Rosas Santa Fe Sarmiento Silvina Spain Spanish station statue street Suipacha tango Tigre tram trees urban Vázquez Rial Victoria Ocampo Villa Villa Crespo villas miseria visited walk women writer wrote Yrigoyen