Currently Out Of Stock
Juan de la Rosa
Paperback
€34.79
Collect 104 Reward Points
- Currently Out Of Stock
- Book Synopsis
- Nataniel Aguirre (1843-1888) was a statesman and active participant in shaping Bolivian politics and economics. His novel, Juan de la Rosa (1885) functionalizes the memories of the last soldier of the Wars of Independence. The story is told as the reminiscences of Colonel de la Rosa whose memories take him back to his childhood on the eve of Independence and his youth fighting in the Bolivian army. Jaun grows up an orphan and his individual struggle allegorizes the national quest for a modern identity. The novel exemplifies 19th-century thinking on racial issues and offers an unusual perspective on the Independence period. Sergio Waisman's recent translation of Ricardo Piglia's Nombre Falso won the Meritorious Achievement Award in the 1995 Eugene M. Kayden National Translation Contest.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9780195113280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (02 September 1999)
- Number of Pages
- 329
- Weight
- 499 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 213 x 142 x 20.3 mm
- Series:
- See all books in this series
- Categories: