Bibliograph

Don Segundo Sombra, Ricardo Güiraldes ; prólogo por Arturo Torres Rioseco

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Don Segundo Sombra, Ricardo Güiraldes ; prólogo por Arturo Torres Rioseco

Language

spa

Bibliography note

Bibliografía acerca de Güiraldes: page 235

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Don Segundo Sombra

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

2547305

Responsibility statement

Ricardo Güiraldes ; prólogo por Arturo Torres Rioseco

Summary

Ricardo Guiraldes's classic novel of the Argentine pampas, "Don Segundo Sombra", published in 1926, has been celebrated both as a national epic and as an elegy for the passing of an era. Its coming-of-age story of a young gaucho, Fabio Caceres, represented for many the essential virtues of a disappearing civilization based on cattle raising and the strength of the gaucho in his struggle with the elements. "Don Segundo Sombra" makes a cult of solitary courage and the laws of nature. Yet it also documents a change from one way of life to another. Argentina, long before 1926, had moved away from dependence on cattle and the gaucho; life on the wide open spaces had already become part of legend

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