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Lucio Vicente López
1848–1894
A sharp-eyed writer of Argentina’s Generation of ’80, he turned politics, society, and daily life into vivid narrative. Best known for La gran aldea, he left behind work that still offers a lively window into Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century.
2 Audiobooks
Argentina, Legend and History
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Carlos O. (Carlos Octavio) Bunge, Luis María Drago, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Pedro Goyena, Juan María Gutiérrez, Pedro Lacasa, Lucio Vicente López, Vicente Fidel López, Vicente López y Planes, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Marcos Sastre
La gran aldea; costumbres bonaerenses
by Lucio Vicente López
About the author
Born in Montevideo on December 13, 1848, during his family’s political exile, Lucio Vicente López became an Argentine writer, journalist, lawyer, and politician. He came from a prominent public family: he was the son of historian Vicente Fidel López and the grandson of Vicente López y Planes, who wrote the Argentine national anthem.
He is most closely associated with the Generation of ’80 and is remembered above all for La gran aldea (1884), a novel of manners that portrays Buenos Aires society with wit and critical insight. He also wrote Recuerdos de viaje and worked on historical and legal subjects, building a career that moved easily between literature, journalism, public debate, and government.
López also held important political roles, including serving as Argentina’s minister of the interior in 1893. His life ended early in Buenos Aires on December 29, 1894, after being wounded in a duel, but his writing remains valuable for the way it captures the ambitions, contradictions, and social world of his era.