- September 5, 1905 in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

Argentina

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) was an Argentine

Argentina

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 writer, lawyer, academic, journalist, and politician.

Cané was born in Uruguay where his family was exiled. He went to Argentina at the age of two following the fall of Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel de Rosas , was an argentine militar and politician, who was elected governor of the province of Buenos Aires in 1829 to 1835, and then of the Argentine Confederation from 1835 until 1852...

. After ending his studies he worked as a journalist.

Cané held numerous political offices, notably Argentine minister of external affairs and of the Interior, having been a provincial and national deputy and Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires. He was also a diplomat, serving in Colombia

Colombia

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, Venezuela

Venezuela

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 and France

France

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. He served in the Argentine Senate

Argentine Senate

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 between 1898 and 1904 for Buenos Aires.

Cané's works included Ensayos (Essays) (1876); Juvenilia (1884), based on memories of his childhood and adolescence; En Viaje 1881-1882 (1884) and Light Prose (1903), a collection of literary writings. Other writings were published posthumously as Discourses and Lectures (1909).

A prominent member of the Generation of '80

Generation of '80

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, Cané was influenced by naturalism

Naturalism (literature)

Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character...

 and the Parnassian poets.

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