Obras de Juan León Mera (Spanish Edition)

Mera is a town in the eastern foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes. It is also the name of the Canton in Pastaza Province of which it is a part. It lends its name to Shell Mera, a larger town 4 miles to the east. Aerial photograph of Mera He earned a degree in jurisprudence from the Central University of Ecuador.

He died in Guayaquil in while holding the position of Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Relations. He earned a law degree from the Central University of Ecuador in While he was a renowned, award-winning music composer, he continued to practice law throughout his lifetime because in Ecuador musical careers were not well-paid.

He took on this position again in for 10 years and again from In he was the director of the School of Arts and Crafts. In he suffered a grave accident at the school, where the fingers of his left hand were severed by a machine. While his career as a pianist was over, he continued as a composer throughout his life. His musical works number over It consists of 14 hectares and dates from It was established by Dr. He introduced Realism into Ecuadorian literature. He was an opponent of the government of Eloy Alfaro.

He worked in different regions and at various jobs, from the humblest to the most prestigious, and knew about the life of the people, which allowed him to write his masterpiece, A la Costa , one of Ecuador's first realist novels, describing faithfully the social changes taking place in his country in the late nineteenth century. In addition to a literary career, he fought against the liberal guerrillas in the s, managed the Valdez sugar mill and was sub-secretary and Minister of Education.

He also promoted construction of a railway between Ambato and the Ecuadorian Amazon which could not be completed.

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He wrote a treatise on agriculture and one in defense of the indigenous people of Ecuador. In Quito, a main avenue is named after him. Karelian poem singing brothers Poavila and Triihvo Jamanen reciting traditional Finnish folk poetry, Russia, Modern depiction of Vyasa narrating the Mahabharata to Ganesha at the Murudeshwara temple, Karnataka.

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History Pre-Colombian literature Pre-Colombian cultures were primarily oral, though the Aztecs and Mayans, for instance, produced elaborate codices. Oral accounts of mythological and religious beliefs were also sometimes recorded after the arrival of European colonizer The Bullring Costumbrismo sometimes anglicized as Costumbrism is the literary or pictorial interpretation of local everyday life, mannerisms, and customs, primarily in the Hispanic scene, and particularly in the 19th century. Costumbrismo is related both to artistic realism and to Romanticism, sharing the Romantic interest in expression as against simple representation and the romantic and realist focus on precise representation of particular times and places, rather than of humanity in the abstract.

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1894 deaths

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