The Marked One and Other Stories

The popular Argentine writer and publicist Manuel Ugarte was one of the most significant followers of the so-called “creolism.” This was a special current in Spanish-language Latin American literature, whose representatives aimed to depict national problems and the life of ordinary people in the genre of realism. The desire to understand the mental essence of a nation and to describe it as fully as possible—relying exclusively on personal experience and observations—was reflected in every single work by Manuel Ugarte.