El Gaucho Martin Fierro (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Jose Hernandez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2000

Martin Fierro es un personaje heroico. Reflejo de un entorno endémico, ligado a Argentina. El texto está escrito con un estilo peculiar que imita del habla de los gauchos de la época. Ese realismo de fondo contrasta, en cambio, con la versificación exhaltada y la rima que el autor impone a su libro.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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José Hernández (1834-1886). Argentina. Nació el 10 de noviembre de 1834. Educado en el Liceo de San Telmo, en 1846 su padre lo llevó al sur de la provincia de Buenos Aires, donde conoció las costumbres de los gauchos. Su vida estuvo marcada por la política. En 1858, junto a varios opositores al gobierno, emigró a Paraná y combatió en varias batallas. Hizo además periodismo en el Nacional Argentino, con artículos en los que condenaba el asesinato de Vicente Peñaloza. En 1868 editó el diario El Eco de Corrientes y un año mas tarde El Río de La Plata, donde escribió artículos sobre la cuestión del gaucho y de la tierra, la política de frontera y los indígenas. Más tarde participó en un levantamiento contra el gobierno de Sarmiento. Fue diputado provincial y, en 1880, siendo presidente de la Cámara de Diputados, defendió la idea de un Estado federal cuya capital fuese Buenos Aires. Murió el 21 de octubre de 1886. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Saint Claire (March 2000)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9505290004
• ISBN-13: 978-9505290000
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• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,110,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A classic, but the ebook has problems, November 15, 2010

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Bill Falls - See all my reviews

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This review is from: El Gaucho Martín Fierro (El Gaucho Martín Fierro, Spanish Language Edition) (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)

The classic 1872 narrative poem celebrating the disappearing gaucho way of life. The book gets five stars from me; I subtracted a star because of problems with the e-book.

This Kindle edition appears to be identical to the Project Gutenberg e-book, which is free as are all books at the volunteer-supported Project Gutenberg website. The Kindle folks don't appear to have added any value for the price they are charging.

The main problem is that the verse formatting disappears after the first few pages; stanzas are run on as paragraphs. I find myself reading more slowly, looking for the rhymes and counting syllables to "hear" the lines of verse that aren't visible on the screen. There also appear to be some minor editing errors, though it's hard to be sure since the narrator is an illiterate gaucho speaking in dialect.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great book, poor formatting, October 14, 2011

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J. Knauss "Author" (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: El gaucho Martín Fierro (Poesia) (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)

For one dollar less, you can have the Spanish version of not just Martin Fierro but also the equally important sequel right here: El gaucho Martín Fierro y La vuelta de Martín Fierro (Spanish Edition) Someone has actually edited the 1.99 version and made sure the line breaks are in the right place so you don't have to guess how it's supposed to be while you read. Much more recommended than this version, in which they have merely copied and pasted from Project Gutenberg.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Gaucho, Martin Fierro, November 9, 2011

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Nina Sala-Gault "Nina Sala-Gault" (The Ozarks - USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: El Gaucho Martín Fierro (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)

What a treat to be able to read this book on my Kindle in the native language. Martin Fierro was a hero to my father, who immigrated to the US from Argentina. I think every boy in Argentina wanted to be a hero gaucho at one time. They were the cowboys of the Argentine Pampas.