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... is the most books I've been juggling in a while. Luckily, so many of them are short story collections.
cmbohn, I know Martin Fierro is available in a bilingual edition, so that'd be sort of win-win. If you're interested in Argentine literature, I'd reccomend Martin Fierro. It's a two-part epic poem about a gaucho and his troubles after getting on the wrong side of the law. I know it's widely available in translation. Also of note is Facundo, which is about one of the military leaders ... ... good at reading poetry. I do enjoy it at times, such as with some of Poe's works, or if it tells a story, such as in Martin Fierro. Some of the same themes from the stories are echoed in the poetry, including memory and nostalgia. ... gaucho Sombra acting as the surrogate father that the narrator never had. There are some of the same guacho elements as in Martin Fierro, though softened to some extent. There is only one lethal knife fight in this book, in which Sombra does not participate. The gaucho's wandering lifestyle is ... ... gaucho Sombra acting as the surrogate father that the narrator never had. There are some of the same guacho elements as in Martin Fierro, though softened to some extent. There is only one lethal knife fight in this book, in which Sombra does not participate. The gaucho's wandering lifestyle ... ... I haven't read Don Quixote either and what little I know doesn't allow me to make many comparisons. I get the impression Martin Fierro is important in Argentine literature roughly the same way Quixote is in the literature of Spain. I finished El gaucho Martin Fierro, which is actually in two parts, both of which are epic poems. In the first part, Martin Fierro gets pressed into military service on the frontier, where he's underfed, underpaid, and generally maltreated. He escapes and returns to his home only to find that his ... ... actually my cover, but pretty cool, eh?)
16. El gaucho Martin Fierro by José Hernández - finished 3/5/09
As I mentioned above, the book is made up of two epic poems about Martin Fierro. In the first one, Martin F ... I started Facundo, a biography of a 19th Century Argentine general, last night after finishing Martin Fierro. And this morning, I started listening to the audiobook of Suite Francaise. I'm riding the Pampas of Argentina with Martin Fierro and Sergeant Cruz. I'm reading Martin Fierro, an epic poem in two parts about a gaucho (Argentine cowboy). I'm cross-posting with Reading Globally's March category, so I'm going to be concentrating on my first category (works about Argentina) ... I started El gaucho Martin Fierro yesterday. It was originally published in two parts, the first in 1872, the second in 1879, and was an immediate success. It is now considered a central work of Argentine literature.
The author, Jose Hernandez, was born in 1834 in San Martin, Buenos Air ... Book Started El gaucho Martin Fierro
Category: Gauchos y Porteños
This book is actually made up two works: El gaucho Martin Fierro and its sequel, La vuelta de Martin Fierro. It's a foundational work of Argentine literature. Both works are written as epic poems detailing the life and ... ... in it. Bakker has the ability to give the sort of mythic quality that epic fantasy requires.
I also just started El gaucho Martin Fierro, which I checked out of the library. It's a bilingual edition, so I have some fallback for when the Spanish escapes me.
And I'm listening to Som ... I plan to tackle El Gaucho Martín Fierro in the Spanish. My husband has a lovely, extremely old leather-bound dual language edition of this text. The English translation is a hoot, mainly because the translator wanders so far from the Spanish and lavishly embroiders the poetry with lavender ... ... - Ursula LeGuin)
The House of Paper by Carlos María Domínguez - A short fabulist novella
El Gaucho Martín Fierro (translated into English as Martin Fierro) by José Hernández - "Martín Fierro is an 2,316 line epic poem by the Argentine writer José ... I think I'll probably start with some gaucho literature, which would put Martin Fierro at the top. Although I might also start with some obscure works, though I'm keeping that list empty until I actually start reading those books. I'll have to look into Martin Fierro. I don't believe I've read anything about gauchos before (scanning my brain, trying to think ...)
One Hundred Years of Solitude is my favorite! I read it in English. I don't know if my Spanish could live up to that one. I've also read Chronicle of a Death Fo ... ... up the idea of gauchesco literature from I don't know where, but it refers to works (mostly Argentine) about gauchos. Martin Fierro is sort of the classic example.
The term Orientales is pretty archaic, and it may stretch back to the 19th century before Uruguay was a separate nation and ... ... , align=center, height=222, width=171>
I. Gauchos y Porteños
1. El gaucho Martin Fierro
2. Don Segundo Sombra
3. Facundo
4. La guerra gaucha
5. El juguete ... ... (992)
Books from the 2008 edition that I tried and didn't finish:
The Call of the Wild
Kristin Lavransdatter
Martin Fierro
Lazarillo de Tormes
La Celestina
... how about:
1) Collected Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
2) Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
3) The Zohar
4) Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez
5) Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
As for something he might posthumously dig, how about Stephen Millhauser's Barnum Museum?
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