DON SEGUNDO SOMBRA Betina

By Ricardo Güiraldes and Ricardo Guiraldes

Book Overview

Don Segundo Sombra, al tiempo que queda marcada por la sensibilidad de su tiempo, se liga a una tradici n de la literatura gauchesca, que determina tambi n la elecci n del narrador en primera persona,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9506030693
• ISBN13: 9789506030698
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: CENTRO EDI

Customer Reviews

Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Guiraldes

An excellent publication of this Argentine Gaucho classic. The compelling story of the legendary quintessential Argentine gaucho, Don Segundo Sombra.

A classic that needs re-issue

Don Segundo Sombra is a classic that deserves to be re-issued. Elegantly written with superb images, the novel despicts not only the adventurous life of the gaucho but also the journey toward self-discovery.

A must read for anyone's list.

I am surprised by how few people know of this book. An excellent novel protraying the master/disciple relationship and questions of ones destiny. It is a pleasure to read.

Fading away country

This is one of the greatest books in Argentine literature. I can remember reading it at the age of sixteen and the impression it made on me. It was as it was telling my own life and childhood in the countryside with the good men that I knew there. And how they all dissapeared facing a modern and much different world giving the word gaucho a more "typical" and superficial meaning. Very, very strange, it made on me the same effect than, lately and older, Islands in the Stream by Hemingway. I strongly recommend it, though my comment is very personal. (sorry about my awful English)