Gesta Bárbara was a

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

n literary journal that played an important role in Bolivian culture in the first half of the 20th century. It was established by

Carlos Medinaceli Carlos Medinaceli (1899–1949) was a Bolivian writer and intellectual. His 1947 novel '' La chaskañawi'' (''la de los ojos de estrella'') deals with sexual entanglements between "cholas" and Criollo people. Selected works * Medinaceli, C ...

Potosí Potosí, known as Villa Imperial de Potosí in the colonial period, is the capital city and a municipality of the Department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world at a nominal . For centuries, it was the location o ...

in 1918. In its first iteration, the journal ran for ten issues. It then ceased publication and was revived many years later, in 1948. The second run was managed by Gustavo Medinaceli and produced four issues before the magazine closed down permanently. It is said to have been inspired by

Ricardo Jaimes Freyre Ricardo Jaimes Freyre (May 12, 1868 – April 24, 1933) was a Peruvian-born Bolivian poet. Background and early years Born in Tacna, Peru on May 12, 1868, his Symbolist-influenced verse, which frequently took advantage of free verse forms, ...

and his work '' Castalia Bárbara'', and early meetings to set it up took place in the house of María Dolores de Inostrosa. The journal gave a platform to poets and critics who would go on to become important figures in Bolivian literature, among them: Armando Alba, Gamaliel Churata, Walter Dalence, Armando Palmero, María Medinaceli, Fidel Rivas, Enrique Viaña, Daniel Zambrana, Arturo Peralta, Víctor Valdivia, the cartoonist Rubinic de Vela, María Gutiérrez,

Alberto Saavedra Nogales Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albe ...

Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas (24 October 1899 – 14 February 1950) was a Bolivian Painting, painter who was a leader of the indigenous art movement during the first half of the 20th century. Life He was born in Potosí and died, committing s ...

, Óscar Alfaro, Jacobo Libermann, Armando Soriano Badani, etc. Several anthologies, culled from the magazine's back issues, have been published in the decades since it closed.

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