Another writer from this country praised tristes and vidalitas, peasant songs from this country, but criticized the culture they came from, represented by the title figure, for retarding this country's progress.
One man from this country wrote an essay arguing that writers like Leon Bloy and Lord Dunsany are seen as connected only because they both influenced the essay's title author, and that "every writer creates his own precursors." That essay in "Kafka and his Precursors." Another writer from this country praised tristes and vidalitas, peasant songs from this country, but criticized the culture they came from, represented by the title figure, for retarding this country's progress. That work is Facundo. A critic of that work and its author Sarmiento wrote a poem whose title character leaves his post as a frontier soldier after trouble with the law and joins Sergeant Cruz to pursue the gaucho way of life; that work is Martin Fierro. For 10 points, name this home of Jose Hernandez and Jorge Luis Borges.
One man from this country wrote an essay arguing that writers like Leon Bloy and Lord Dunsany are seen as connected only because they both influenced the essay's title author, and that "every writer creates his own precursors.
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