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Germán Luco Cruchaga

Personal information
Surname: Luco Cruchaga
First name: Germán
Born: 1894, , Chile
Died: 1936
Biography

Germán Luco Cruchaga was a journalist and a novelist, as well as a playwright. He was born into a poor yet aristocratic family, and so was familiar with traversing the upper and lower l... (Read more...)

Themes

Germán Luco Cruchago’s work is characterised thematically by his explorations of various oppositions: urban and rural, the city and the provinces, the aristocracy and the working class... (Read more...)

Style

Germán Luco Cruchaga is regarded as the principal exponent of naturalismo criollista, a version of realism which pays close attention to the historical, geographical and social specifi... (Read more...)

Plays in the database
Other works
  • Luco Cruchaga, Germán. 1979. Amo y señor in Teatro. Santiago, Nascimento (in Spanish)

  • Luco Cruchaga, Germán. 1979. Bailabuén in Teatro. Santiago, Nascimento (in Spanish)

Useful reading and websites
  • Barrietas, Raúl. 1974. ‘Relación mítica entre el campesino y la tierra en tres dramas chilenas’, Antar, 1.1, 14-25 (in Spanish)

  • Durán-Cerda, Julio. 1981. ‘Germán Luco Cruchaga y el teatro chileno moderno’, Texto Crítico, 7, 22-3 (in Spanish)

  • Merino Reyes, Luis. 1986. ‘Aproximación a Germán Luco Cruchaga y su viuda de Apablaza’, Literatura Chilena, 10.2.3, 21-2 (in Spanish)

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 23 November 2011.

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