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Pedro Orgambide. Un amor imprudente. Buenos Aires. Norma. 1994. 128 pages. ISBN 95-804-2880-8.
Delmira Agustini, who was assassinated in 1914 by her jealous husband, from whom she was separated but with whom she had agreed to have sex in a sordid hotel for lovers in Montevideo, is now recognized as one of the most erotic writers ever to have emerged from Latin America. Her poetry, marked by brilliant metaphors of the body and sexual experience, now holds a secure place in Uruguayan literature for the sheer sensuality and materiality of its expression.
Pedro Orgambide's novel Un amor imprudente is a carefully executed meditation on the death of Agustini, who was only in her midtwenties when Reyes, the husband from whom she was estranged, shot her and then committed suicide, apparently less out of despair at not being able to hold on...