Domingo F. Sarmiento

Facundo

Or, Civilization and Barbarism
Übersetzer: Mann, Mary Peabody

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals, this work is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga. It is also a complex and passionate investigation of the dialectic of civilization and barbarism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780140436778
• ISBN-10: 0140436774
• Artikelnr.: 22107363

Autorenporträt

An writer, educator, and activist, Domingo F. Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874.  Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author or editor of numerous books.

Inhaltsangabe

Translated by Mary Peabody Mann with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans
Introduction
Chronology
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
FACUNDO: OR, CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM
Appendix: Author's Notice from the 1845 Edition