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The Pond: Puerto Ricos 19th Century Masterpiece - Couverture souple

Zeno-Gandia, Manuel

 
9781558760929: The Pond: Puerto Ricos 19th Century Masterpiece
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 155876092X ISBN 13 : 9781558760929
Editeur : Markus Wiener Publishing Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico's exquisite black café, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid huts and rarely saw a scrap of meat. Brutalized by grinding poverty, theirs was the harsh world of Manuel Zeno-Gandia's La Charca, published in 1894 and widely acknowledged as the first major novel to emerge from Puerto Rico. In the colloquial Spanish of Puerto Rico's hill-country, una charca is a stagnant pond, a body of brackish water. Puerto Rico's Spanish colonial society, says Zeno-Gandia, was an immense charca of human beings, oppressed by poverty, ignorance and disease. His bitter melodrama offers stark contrasts: the beautiful Puerto Rican countryside, a veritable Garden of Eden; yet within that "regal panorama," starved, diseased human beings clung desperately to life.

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Éditeur
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
155876092X
ISBN 13 
9781558760929
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
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