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Jorge Isaacs (born April 1, 1837, Cali, Cauca, Colom.—died April 17, 1895, Ibagué) was a Colombian poet and novelist whose best work, María (1867; Maria: A South American Romance, 1977), was one of the most famous Latin-American novels of the 19th century.
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María is a novel written by Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs between 1864 and 1867. It is a costumbrist novel representative of the Spanish Romantic movement. It may be considered a precursor of the criollist novels of the 1920s and 1930s in Latin America.
Jorge Isaacs Ferrer (April 1, 1837 – April 17, 1895) was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, María , became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish-language literature.
Nov 6, 2016 · Jorge Isaacs published María in 1867. The main character was based on his cousin with the same name and contains many autobiographical elements. It’s a story of heartbreak in which a young man, Efraín, falls in love with his first cousin, which is forbidden by their family.
May 23, 2018 · Jorge Isaacs (1837-1895) was Colombia's greatest 19th-century novelist. He also was politically active and one of Colombia's first cultural anthropologists.
Jorge Isaacs's Maria is frequently found in the same category as Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac: it is a novel to be read by the young and naive not yet disillusioned by the skepticism of experience, lile fainting spells and
Jorge Isaacs ( b. 1 April 1837; d. 17 April 1895), Colombian poet, politician, and ethnologist. Born in Cali, to an English father—a Christian convert from Judaism—and a Catholic Spanish mother, Isaacs was also Indian, Catalan, and Italian. He epitomized the Spanish American quest for personal and cultural identity in his life and his works.
