Uno scrittore uruguaiano di origine sarda: Osvaldo Crispo Acosta e la sua opera

Abstract

This essay analyses the literary work of Osvaldo Crispo Acosta, outlining the biographic profile of this Italian second generation migrant. Professor of literature at the University of Montevideo, at the young age of 21, Crispo Acosta collaborated in and wrote himself several essays for the journals «El Imparcial», «El Plata», «Hispania», «Mundo Uruguayo», «Revista Nacional» on several Latin American and Spanish authors, frequently under the pen name of "Lauxar". Belonging to the so-called Generación del 18, he was a severe and inflexible literary critic and even now he is considered as one of the greatest connoisseurs of the poetry of the Nicaraguan author, Rubén Darío, and the works of fiction and essays of his "mentor", the Uruguayan author José Enrique Rodó.