Crónica de San Gabriel

by Julio Ramón Ribeyro

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After his mother's death, Lucho, a teenager, is sent from Lima to stay with his relatives at the San Gabriel hacienda. There he witnisses the provincial customs of an agrarian community and develops a torturous relationship with his manipulative young cousin.

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I am not a fan of Mario Vargas Llosa, so I haven’t read a lot of Peruvian writers. I did read a collection of Ribeyro’s short stories (entitled Marginal Voices) a few years ago because I was intrigued by the country and wanted to learn more. (Surprisingly, I can find no review or other indication of my thoughts on that collection.) Ribeyro was best known for his short stories and he received the Premio Juan Rulfo de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe (now known as the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages) the year he died, 1994. Most of what he wrote focused on urban stories, urban contexts. This novel is an exception: it tells of a boy from Lima who is sent to live on a remote hacienda in the mountains. It is simultaneously show more a coming of age story and a story about life in a rural farming community. As with my comments about Kocharethi, above, it is perhaps of more interest for its depiction of life and customs in rural Peru than for its plot, though the story is worth reading. show less
scrittore e drammaturgo peruviano (Lima 1929-1995). Cresciuto in una famiglia borghese peruviana, si trasferì in un primo momento in Germania, Belgio e Spagna e poi per un un lungo periodo in Francia. Considerato uno dei maggiori autori peruviani contemporanei, esordì nel 1958 con Cuentos de circunstancias (Racconti di circostanza). Inizialmente attratto dalla narrativa fantastica, cambiò successivamente genere approdando a un naturalismo sociale spesso di denuncia per le condizioni degli emarginati. Dopo Crónica de San Gabriel (1960; Cronaca di San Gabriele), storia di un contadino adolescente peruviano, pubblicò due raccolte di racconti: La palabra del mudo (1973; La parola del muto) e Silvio en el rosendal (1989; Silvio nel show more roseto). Tra i testi teatrali di Ribeyro sono da menzionare El último cliente (1966; L'ultimo cliente) e Teatro (1972).

CARTONATO EDITORIALE, pp. 203, cm. 22 X 13.5, OTTIMO STATO
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San Gabriel es una hacienda en el interior del Perú. A ella acude, por razones familiares, un adolescente criado en la capital. "Pero San Gabriel no es una casa, como tu crees", le advierte Jacinto, "el loco" de la familia, "ni un pueblo. Es una selva". Y, de hecho, en contra de toda expectativa, lo que encuentra Lucho en ese mundo rural, de muchas generaciones de terratenientes, es una comunidad que, como toda comunidad cerrada y aislada por mucho tiempo, "con sólo respirar el arie, se envenena" y en la que "el pez mas grande se come al chico" y "los débiles no tienen derecho a vivir".

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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863.64Literature & rhetoricSpanish LiteratureSpanish fiction20th Century1945-2000
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PQ8497 .R47 .C7Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesSpanish literatureProvincial, local, colonial, etc.Spanish America
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