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José Estéban Echeverría was born on September 2, 1805, in Buenos Aires. His father died shortly thereafter, and the boy was raised by his mother and several doting aunts.
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El Matadero depicts a characteristic scene of the terrible times in Argentina before its institutionalization as a democratic republic. Esteban Echeverría transports us in place and time, and allows us to witness and relive the opressive climate of the regime against which he fought, and that was finally defeated by Urquiza giving way to the country dreamed by Alberdi, Mitre and Sarmiento, among many others. Member of Marcos Sastre's literary salon, when Rozas orders it closure Echeverria founded the Asociacion de Mayo, a secretive society following Mazzini's Young Italy. The matadero (the slaughter yard) was conceived as a political pamphlet. However the quality of its prose projects beyond its original purpose, transforming it into a jewel, useful for the study of popular customs that constitute the soul of history. At its time the critic observed that these pages were not conceived with publishing in mind, due to the haste with which they were written and crude realistic language employed. Curiously enough these "faults" constitute their major feature, as they have saved the author's work from the changes in literary fashion. Echeverría in this "nouvelle" (perhaps short story would be more accurate a deffinition) according to his friend Juan María Gutiérrez "performs as a painter that opens his sketchbook to quickly depict in general strokes the scenes of a public street, saving them to compose a customs picture, later and in the quietness of his shop" Tempted by this line of thought we decide to include in this edition the elegant and witty "Apology of the thin flank" (apología del matambre). Because if pictorial sketches are valuable as clues to the painter's genius, the Apología. depicts the Echeverría, author of "Dogma Socialista" and simultaneously friend of Juan Bautista Alberdi, author of the basis of the Argentine Constitution, written following the same guidelines as the Constitution of the United States of America.
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("El Matadero" es un texto literario romántico de Esteban ...)
"El Matadero" es un texto literario romántico de Esteban Echeverría. Es considerado el primer cuento realista del Río de la Plata, además de ser una de las obras más célebres de este trascendente escritor, constituyendo unos de los pilares de la literatura hispanoamericana.
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5 Obras de Esteban Echeverría Escritor romántico argentino (1805-1851) Este libro electrónico presenta una colección de 5 Obras de Esteban Echeverría en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente a la obra seleccionada. Índice interactivo: - Apología del matambre - Cartas a un amigo - El Matadero - La cautiva - Los consuelos
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Este es un escalofriante relato de la vida cotidiana en Argentina durante la tiranía de Rosas. Reflejo de la miseria moral y de las penurias humanas de los arrabales de Buenos Aires. Su naturalismo expresivo y precisión verbal le confieren una extraña mod
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José Estéban Echeverría was born on September 2, 1805, in Buenos Aires. His father died shortly thereafter, and the boy was raised by his mother and several doting aunts.
For reasons unexplained and apparently beyond his control, he left school to take a job as a customshouse clerk. Out of this reflective period came a determination to seek a fuller education than Echeverría's young country could provide. In 1826 Echeverría settled in Paris and resumed his formal studies, most significantly, political science from a sociological perspective. His reading broadened to include writers cultivating a new and exciting mode: Goethe, Schiller, and especially Byron. From these readings developed a growing sense of self-identification with romantic expression and ideas.
By 1830, Echeverría was back in Buenos Aires. His early romantic poems, including "Elvira, or the Bride of the Plate" (1832), attracted little interest.
His volume of verses entitled Consolations (1834) had considerable public success, owing no doubt to its dominant themes of patriotism and romantic love. In Rhymes (1837) he included a long narrative poem called The Captive Woman, in which his poetic genius is wedded to national themes.
In this poem, with striking descriptions of the Pampa, the Indian tribes of the area, and the romantic adventures of two young lovers, he accomplished his aim of "Americanizing" Argentine literature.
In 1838 Echeverría was instrumental in founding the Association of May, a secret society whose goal was to return Argentina to democratic rule. Its credo, composed by Echeverría and published in 1846 under the title The Socialist Dogma, was an idealistic work of democratic propaganda. The dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas eventually obliged many of the association members, including Echeverría, to flee to Uruguay.
During the years remaining before his death in exile on January 19, 1851, Echeverría wrote some relatively unsuccessful verse-"The Guitar" (1842) and its continuation "The Fallen Angel" (1846)-which dealt with the Don Juan theme. But it was a prose sketch, "The Slaughterhouse, " found among his papers and published in 1871 that secured his literary reputation.
This starkly realistic anecdote, which recounts the death of a young opponent of the Rosas regime at the hands of Rosas supporters employed at the Buenos Aires slaughterhouse, is one of the most powerful and memorable prose narratives ever written in Spanish America.
He remained in Uruguay until his death in 1851.
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("El Matadero" es un texto literario romántico de Esteban ...)
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He was a member of the group of young Argentine intellectuals who in 1840 organized the Asociación de Mayo ("May Association", after the May Revolution that initiated Argentina's move towards independence).