Ángel Rama

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Ángel Rama (1926 - November 27, 1983) was a Uruguayan writer, academic, and literary critic.

Born in Montevideo to Galician immigrants, he studied at the College de France of the University of Paris. In the 1960's, after several years teaching at the secondary and university level, he became director of the department of Hispanoamerican literature at the University of Montevideo. He held professorships at numerous universities in Europe and the Americas, founded the publishing house Editorial Arca, and served as literary adviser to Ayacucho Library in Caracas. A member of Uruguay's Generation of '45, also known as the "Critical Generation", he contributed frequently to the weekly review Marcha until its suppression in 1974 by the military government of Juan María Bordaberry. One of his best-remembered quotes, "Uruguay made me" (delivered in English), is found in "The Intellectual Lesson of Marcha", which he wrote following the review's suppression under Bordaberry ^[1]. He died in a plane crash at Barajas Airport, along with his wife Marta Traba, the Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia, and Peruvian poet Manuel Scorza.

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Rama is most famous for his criticism, and in particular his analysis of the Latin American Boom, its motivations, origins, and possible consequences.