Juan De La Rosa
Sergio Gabriel Waisman(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 19. November 1998
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Hardback
432 pages
978-0-19-511327-3 (ISBN)
Description
Nataniel Aguirre (1843-1888) was a statesman and active participant in shaping Bolivian politics and economics. His novel, Juan de la Rosa (1885) functionalizes the memories of the last soldier of the Wars of Independence. The story is told as the reminiscences of Colonel de la Rosa whose memories take him back to his childhood on the eve of Independence and his youth fighting in the Bolivian army. Jaun grows up an orphan and his individual struggle allegorizes the national quest for a modern identity. The novel exemplifies 19th-century thinking on racial issues and offers an unusual perspective on the Independence period. Sergio Waisman's recent translation of Ricardo Piglia's Nombre Falso won the Meritorious Achievement Award in the 1995 Eugene M. Kayden National Translation Contest. This book is intended for those interested in or studying Latin America or specifically, Argentinian literature.
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English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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2 maps
ISBN-13
978-0-19-511327-3 (9780195113273)
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