Modern Literature
Modernismo and modernism are reactions against the previous literature of Romanticism. Modernism's main topics are ugliness and mystery. The main modern writers are:
- Jose Eustasio Rivera
- Rafael Maya
- León de Greiff
- Luis Vidales
- Luis Carlos López
- Germán Arciniegas
- Porfirio Barba-Jacob
- José María Vargas Vila
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