José Martí and the Call of Technology in "Amor de ciudad grande"

David Laraway, Brigham Young University - Provo

Abstract

Sometime in November of 1883, readers of the Spanish-language periodical La Ameica opened their paper to discover that a fantastic- sounding invention had recently been unveiled at a technology exposition in Vienna. "Es un aparatillo ingeniosisimo," exclaimed Jos6 Marti, a correspondent for the paper: