Son of an Argentine father and an oriental mother, Emilio Lascano Tegui was born in Concepción del Uruguay, in Argentina, in 1887, although his birth certificate was never found. In 1908 he traveled to Europe as a translator of the International Post Office and devoted himself, during his frequent licenses, to walking France, Italy and North Africa. Letraherido, begins in 1909 to sign before the fictitious title viscount. In 1914 he decided to settle in Paris, where he participated in the bohemian and friendship of Picasso and Apollinaire. In the French capital he will practice the profession of dental mechanic during all the years of the Great War. Throughout his life, Lascano Tegui worked as a diplomat, muralist painter, cook and museum curator. His literary career began in 1910 with the book of poems La sombra de la Empusa. The following year he published the book White with false imprint of Paris, under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío hijo. Gather all your articles published in various media in the volume My dear ones died. It will be in 1925 when Lascano Tegui publishes, in the Excelsior publishing house of Paris, his most rounded work, De la gente while suerme, which narrates, as if it were an intimate diary, the story of the gestation of a murder. Boy of San Telmo, his last book, published in 1944, integrates a collection of poems where the author evokes his own childhood. A good part of the rest of the work of Lascano Tegui is lost or directly doubted its existence: the original of the play Don Juan's wife, for example, was destroyed when the cabin of a ship where the Author; other works, such as the trial Milky Way of Moths, are supposed to be kept in a closed room of a Buenos Aires apartment, which was not found. The same fate ran the manuscripts of When silver was Miss and Women behind a boyfriend. Both are mentioned in his holographic testament, but they were never found. The Viscount of Lascano Tegui lived his last years in Buenos Aires, where he died on April 23, 1966.