Fraile Muerto - Couverture souple

Casas, Juan Carlos

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9872050651 ISBN 13 : 9789872050658

Editeur : StockCERO, 2002

Synopsis

Two distinguished English youths bought the Cordovan government four leagues of field south of Fraile Muerto, today Bell Ville, in 1865.
Argentina then began the laborious takeoff that, from a miserable country, incommunicado and torn by fifty years of foreign and civil wars, in the following fifty years would make it one of the six richest countries in the world. Juan Carlos Casas makes a realistic painting of the clash between the culture of the newcomers and the creole, and of the dangerous life of those who began to populate the Pampean deserts, especially if they settled near the border with the warlike ranqueles Indians. The novel is based on real events and is the result of a rigorous investigation that began with the memoirs written by two of the protagonists published under the title Pioneering in the Pampas. Casas adds to them the necessary dose of fiction that turns Fraile Muerto into a pulsating history where gauchos, "decent" Creoles, English and Indians mix: highwaymen and railroads: Catholic priests and Protestant pastors and Mapuche sorcerers; supporters and opponents of the war with Paraguay; rancile caciques and commanders of the National Guard; stable racers and jockeys racing English; the judgments and prejudices of each other; the disturbing conscience of an Englishman for his presumed cowardice and the contempt of a creole towards the one who abandoned her.
A work that invites you to know how the ancestors of today's Argentines worked, thought, loved and lived.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lawyer specialized in the Financial Market, writer and journalist. From 1980 to 1996 he wrote the Sunday column "Dialogues in the City" in the newspaper La Nación under the pseudonym "David Home". He also collaborated in La Nueva Provincia, Lagniappe Letter, Archivos del Presente, Márgenes Agropecuarios, Prensa Económica and edited the weekly newsletters "Mercados Financieros" and "Argentine Financial News". He is the author of the books: The return of the repatriated Ulises Izakerri (Emecé 1979), Fraile Muerto (1988), The Ingratitude of Sarmiento (Atlántida 1989), No a la Decadencia Argentina, along with Guy Sorman (Atlántida 1991), New Politicians and new policies in Latin America (Atlántida 1991), whose translation into Portuguese was published by Editora Record of Rio de Janeiro.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: StockCERO
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: espagnol
• ISBN 10: 9872050651
• ISBN 13: 9789872050658
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible