Doña Bárbara

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Doña Bárbara

novel by Gallegos

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Rómulo Gallegos
…in Latin American literature with Doña Bárbara (1929; Eng. trans. Doña Barbara), the story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo. She and the violent frontier yield in the face of civilization and law. The novel Cantaclaro (1934; “Chanticleer”) deals…
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…in Latin American literature with Doña Bárbara (1929; Eng. trans. Doña Barbara), the story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo. She and the violent frontier yield in the face of civilization and law. The novel Cantaclaro (1934; “Chanticleer”) deals…
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Latin American literature
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by the Argentine Ricardo Güiraldes, Doña Bárbara (1929; Doña Bárbara) by the Venezuelan Rómulo Gallegos, and La vorágine (1924; The Vortex) by the Colombian José Eustasio Rivera. All three are set in rural contexts and depict man’s struggle to tame nature and make it subservient and bountiful. Each, as is…
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by the Argentine Ricardo Güiraldes, Doña Bárbara (1929; Doña Bárbara) by the Venezuelan Rómulo Gallegos, and La vorágine (1924; The Vortex) by the Colombian José Eustasio Rivera. All three are set in rural contexts and depict man’s struggle to tame nature and make it subservient and bountiful. Each, as is…
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