Episk digt fra Argentina der skildrer gauchoens mod, uafhængighed og frie liv

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A nineteenth-century protest poem depicts the plight of the Argentine gaucho, driven from the pampas and pressed into military service

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of Argentina’s richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages, as well as to the ruthless violence involved in nation-building. This subversive retelling of Argentina’s foundational gaucho epic Martín Fierro is a celebration of the colour and movement of the living world, the open road, love and sex, and the dream of lasting freedom. With humour and sophistication, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara has created a joyful, hallucinatory novel that is also an incisive critique of national myths.

Martín Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine (1923) is an epic poem and accompanying scholarship by José Hernández and Henry A. Holmes. Originally published in two parts, the poem has been praised as a defining work of Argentine literature for its depiction of national identity in relation to the gaucho culture, which was used to consolidate the historical and political image of the country against European influence. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Hernández was a writer who grew up in a ranching family, who knew firsthand the prowess of a people who helped Argentina free itself from Spanish control.Martín Fierro is a masterpiece of Spanish-language literature that continues to define and inform Argentine culture today. In this text, scholar Henry A. Holmes translates parts of the poem while contextualizing it alongside works of Hernández’s predecessors. In addition, Holmes provides invaluable information on the poet’s life, discusses the significance of the gaucho in Argentine literature, and investigates the portrayal of the indigenous peoples of Argentina in the poem. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of José Hernández and Henry A. Holmes’ Martín Fierro: An Epic of the Argentine is a classic of Argentine literature reimagined for modern readers.

Esta obra fue creada enn dos epocas consecutives, aprecio la primer parte en 1872 como El gauncho MartinFierro; siete años nas tarde se publicaba La vuelta de Martin Fierro. A partir de la ultima ambas partes se publicaron siempre unidas en un unico poema que llego converirse sen la obra arentina por excelecia. Martin Fierro, nombre del proagonista esta, escrita en la lengua propiade los gauchos y en un estilo rustic que expresa en forma autobiografica las vicistudes del mundo de la pampa. Sus verso son una constant denuncia de la injusa persecucion que sufren los gaucho por los colonizadores espanoles, admenas de ser el gran simbolo tracial y la mas genuine expression del nacionalismo de este pueblo y areas colindates.a