Costa Rican writer and journalist, who belonged to the so-called “Generation 40”. After completing his secondary education, he published his first three books: “Meditations outside grounds of Proteus” (1918), “Essay on the poet Rafael Cardona, his personality” (1919) and “Philosophy of review: Moses Vincenzi his personality “(1920). He traveled to Paris in 1919, where he comenzzó to use the name “Leon” because the French expressed little acceptance of its name. While studying at the Sorbonne, he was associated with Miguel Angel Asturias, Arturo Uslar Pietri and Alfonso Reyes. In 1932 he returned to Costa Rica and served as professor of French, Castilian, literature and aesthetics at the Lyceum, and then at the University of Costa Rica. He served in parallel as a journalist of opinion and literary, working for newspapers and magazines as the reason for Buenos Aires, El Universal of Caracas, El Tiempo of Bogota, News of Mexico, ABC Madrid, Revue de L’Amerique Latine in Paris and the American Repertory. Although he wrote a novel that somehow part of the generation of ’40 ( “The marshes of hell” on the banana strike of 1934), his main interest was the essay writer. As a scholar of French culture, he wrote “Eleven French teachers” (1936) and “Ariadne’s Thread” (1965); “Three passionate essays: Vallejo, Unamuno, Camus’ (1968) and” Open doors, outside doors “(1976), on politics, aesthetics and Costa Rican identity. In 1972 he was awarded the Prize Magón.
He died in San Jose, Costa Rica, on 26 July 1980
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