Juan de la Rosa: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement - Couverture souple

Aguirre, Nataniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195113284 ISBN 13 : 9780195113280

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sergio Gabriel Waisman is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Alba María de la Paz Soldán is Professor Latin American Literature, University of Buenos Aires.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195113284
• ISBN 13: 9780195113280
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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