Colombian Literature - Modern Literature

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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