Tierra del Fuego
by Sylvia Iparraguirre
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"Tierra del Fuego is a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower, enriched by a chilling psychological and cultural tale that probes deeply into human nature - one reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or Lord of the Flies. It is based on the true story of the Yamana Indian, Jemmy Button, parts of which are recorded in Chapter 10 of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. This novel explores Captain Robert Fitzroy's abduction of Jemmy Button from his home in Cape Horn show more and Fitzroy's attempt to "civilize" Button in England in order to return him to his country as a bearer of "enlightened society." The experiment leads to tragic consequences. Tierra del Fuego deals with European arrogance and exploitation without resorting to the cliche of the "Noble Savage."" "The tale is told from the point of view of John William Guevera, an "outsider" with an English father and Argentinean mother. Guevera, living between those two worlds, is one of the few characters in the novel who can foresee the tragic consequences of the "experiment" and who can best understand Jemmy Button and the political machinery behind the curtain of "civilized society.""--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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antología de cuentos enmarcados en el sur
En 1830 Jemmy Button un indio Yamana del cabo de hornos fue trasladado a Londres por el navegante Fitz Roy a fin de asimilarlo a la cultura británica.
Sep 1, 2015Spanish
Fecha de Publicación: 2007
Editorial Punto de Lectura
253 Páginas
ISBN:9789875780781
Categorias: Novela
Diseño de colección: Punto de lectura
Diseño de cubierta: Claudio A. Carrizo
Ilustración de portada: adaptación de Naufragio (1805) de J.M. Turner
Editorial Punto de Lectura
253 Páginas
ISBN:9789875780781
Categorias: Novela
Diseño de colección: Punto de lectura
Diseño de cubierta: Claudio A. Carrizo
Ilustración de portada: adaptación de Naufragio (1805) de J.M. Turner
Jan 20, 2025Spanish
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- Canonical title
- Tierra del Fuego
- Original title
- La tierra del fuego
- Original publication date
- 1998
- People/Characters
- Jemmy Button; Robert Fitzroy; Charles Darwin [Charles Robert: 1809-1882]
- Important places
- Argentina; Falkland Islands; Tierra del Fuego; London, England, UK; Chile
- Epigraph*
- Onde termina aquilo que queres em vão penetrar? Não o sabes? Que há adiante do que vês? A solidão, o perigo, o selvagem, a morte? (...) o homem que anda nesses cenários se sente assaltado por temores e incertezas fantá... (show all)sticas, por sonhos que o preocupam acordado. (Domingos F. Sarmiento)
Atormenta-me uma perdurável inquietude pelas coisas distantes. (Herman Melville) - Dedication*
- a Abelardo
à memória de meu pai - First words*
- Hoje, no meio deste nada, aconteceu um fato extraordinário. Tão de longe em longe a planície quebra sua monotonia interminável que, quando aquele ponto vacilante no horizonte cresceu e se tornou um cavaleiro, e pôde-se d... (show all)eduzir que sua direção era a destas pobres casas, a impaciência já nos mandava esperá-lo.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 863.64 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000
- LCC
- PQ7798.19 .P37 .T5413 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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