Los ríos profundos (The Commonwealth and international library. Pergamon Oxford Latin-American series) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

José María Arguedas

World Literature

Pergamon Press

Deep Rivers (Pergamon Oxford Spanish)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Elsevier

José María Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. Ernesto, the narrator of Deep Rivers, is a child with origins in two worlds. The son of a wandering country lawyer, he is brought up by Indian servants until he enters a Catholic boarding school at age 14. In this urban Spanish environment he is a misfit and a loner. The conflict of the Indian and the Spanish cultures is acted out within him as it was in the life of Arguedas. For the boy Ernesto, salvation is his world of dreams and memories. While Arguedas' poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary. This makes translation into other languages extremely difficult, and Frances Horning Barraclough has done a masterful job, winning the 1978 Translation Center Award from Columbia University for her efforts.

Deep rivers (The Texas Pan American series)

University of Texas Press

<p>Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress the traditional Indian-style bullfight reflects their attitude toward social change more generally. Included with the text of the novel is Arguedas' anthropological essay "Puquio: A Culture in the Process of Change," written eighteen years after Yawar Fiesta. The article emphasizes the social changes in the village that resulted from the road construction described in the novel. Jos‚ Mar¡a Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. While Arguedas' poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary, making translation into other languages extremely difficult. Frances Horning Barraclough has met the challenge and produced an excellent work that remains faithful to the author's use of language to reflect the lived experience of Peruvian Indians.</p>

Yawar Fiesta (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

United States

Univ of Texas Pr

Yawar Fiesta

Contemporary

Quartet Books

Alliierte in Berlin 1945 - 1994

BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag

Los rios profundos (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Cátedra

Ante la proximidad de La Fiesta Nacional del Perú, el 28 de julio, los vecinos del pueblo andino de puquio comienzan a prepara su Yawar Fiesta, o fiesta de la sangre. Para ello deben atrapar al temible Misitu, el toro que recorre la puna alimentando su propia leyenda. Desde Lima llega la advertencia del Gobierno: la corrida sangrienta se prohíbe. Pero los indios no se resignaran a perder aquello por lo que llevan esperando todo el ano y que forma parte de sus propias tradiciones ancestrales. Ediciones del viento viene a recuperar con esta edición una de las novelas hispanoamericanas mas importantes del siglo pasado.

Ediciones del Viento

I fiumi profondi

Einaudi Tascabili

El Zorro de Arriba y el Zorro de Abajo

El Zorro De Arriba Y El Zorro De Abajo

ALLCA XXe, Université Paris X, Centre de recherches latino-américaines

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