Cesar Duayen Libros

The 20th centurys first Argentine best seller was Cesar Duayens novel Stella of 1905. Cesar Duayen was quickly revealed to be Emma de la Barra (1861-1947), who besides founding the first professional school for women in Argentina, the national Red Cross, and a model factory workers community, published five extraordinarily sucessful novels about Argentine society

Mecha Iturbe, published in Buenos Aires in 1906, is the most ambitious and longest of Cesar Duayens five novels about the transformation of Argentina into a contemporary state in the early part of the 20th century. Cesar Duayen, pseudonym of Emma de la Barra (1861-1947), was the author of Argentinas best seller, Stella of 1905,