In the vast panorama of Latin American literature, there are many talented but lesser known authors who, for various reasons, have not been fully recognized as yet. One of these is Eugenio Cambaceres, an Argentine aristocrat born of a Spanish mother and a French father in the year 1843. The dual characteristics of both lineages are reflected in his work, which fact makes it difficult to pinpoint his position in the literary picture of his epoch, the turbulent decades before the turn of the century.