Rosa Arciniega (born perhaps 1903, 1908, or 1909 in

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; died 1999 in Argentina) was a Peruvian novelist with a

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bent. She was a pioneer of women's rights, and belonged to the generation of left-leaning intellectuals led by

José Carlos Mariátegui José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira (June 14, 1894 - April 16, 1930) was a Peruvian writer, journalist, politician and Marxist–Leninist philosopher. A prolific author despite his early death, El Amauta (from Quechua: hamawt'a, "teacher", a nam ...

. As a young person, she traveled to Spain (where she published many of her works), affiliated herself with the Socialist party, and began her work as a journalist. She got married in 1924, and in 1936 she returned to Peru, at the beginning of the

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. She is principally known for her biographies and several novels. Her third novel, the 1933 dystopian ''Mosko-Strom. El torbellino de las grandes metrópolis'' depicts a noisy mechanical world that worships progress and is indifferent to the welfare of human beings.

Sources

''Mosko-strom: el torbellino de las grandes metropolis : novela''
1934 edition (second edition) on Google Books.
WorldCat listing
of the 1934 edition (second edition) of ''Mosko-Strom''.

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, 22 March 2019; discusses the resurging interest in ''Mosko-Strom''.
Libreria Sur
showing that ''Mosko-Strom'' has been reissued in 2019.
Terrores Vanguardistas: el miedo a la modernidad y la «llamada al orden»
by Esperanza López Parada, in ''A través de la vanguardia hispanoamericana'', ed. Manuel Fuentes and Paco Tovar, 2011, pp. 563 - 571, discusses Rosa Arciniega.
La Mujer Nueva americana en España: Rosa Arciniega
by María del Carmen Simón Palmer, in ''Mosaico transatlántico: Escritoras, artistas e imaginarios (España-EEUU, 1830-1940)'', ed. Beatriz Ferrús and Alba del Pozo, 2017, unpaginated ebook.
Spanish-American Literature: A History
by Enrique Anderson Imbert, 1969, p. 652, briefly discusses the 1931 novel ''Engranajes'', in addition to ''Mosko-Strom''. Peruvian expatriates in Spain Peruvian women's rights activists Peruvian women activists Peruvian socialists 1900s births 1999 deaths 20th-century Peruvian women writers Writers from Lima Peruvian women novelists Peruvian biographers Women biographers Year of birth uncertain {{Peru-writer-stub