El último gamonal / Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Álvarez Gardeazábal, Gustavo.

Contributor:

Project Muse, distributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábel ; 1

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Antiheroes.

Violence--Fiction.

Antiheroes--Fiction.

Colombia--Valle del Cauca.

Valle del Cauca (Colombia)--Fiction.

Valle del Cauca (Colombia).

Genre:

Fiction

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Sexta edición

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

Place of Publication:

Cali, Colombia : Universidad del Valle, 2019.

Summary:

"This is Leonardo Espinosa, distantly related to Pedro Páramo, that other inhabitant of our America expert in rape, betrayal, robbery and murder, but closer to another Gardeazabalesque antihero such as León María Lozano who, as Jonathan Tittler says in El verbo y command, "shares with the political boss of Trujillo an impressive series of qualities": his historical base in Valle del Cauca, the humble origins of the protagonist, his exacerbated provincialism, his primitivism, his inability to articulate his thoughts or feelings, his daring or verraquera, his unlimited capacity to unleash the violence necessary to achieve any goal or to pay any debt, his ingratitude towards people who have supported him, his dependence on national structures to stay in power, his abandonment by those structures when it no longer serves their interests and, evil, their destiny of violent death."-- Back cover.

"Este es Leonardo Espinosa, lejanamente emparentado con Pedro Páramo, ese otro habitante de nuestra América experto en violaciones, traiciones, robos y asesinatos, pero más cercano a otro antihéroe gardeazabalesco como es León María Lozano que, al decir de Jonathan Tittler en El verbo y el mando, "comparte con el jefe político de Trujillo una serie impresionante de cualidades": su base histórica en el Valle del Cauca, los orígenes humildes del protagonista, su exacerbado provincialismo, su primitivismo, su incapacidad para articular sus pensamientos o sentimientos, su atrevimiento o verraquera, su capacidad ilimitada para soltar la violencia necesaria para realizar cualquier meta o para pagar cualquier deuda, su ingratitud para con gente que le ha apoyado, su dependencia de estructuras nacionales para mantenerse en el poder, su abandono por parte de esas estructuras cuando ya nos les sirve a sus intereses y, al mal, su destino de muerte violenta."-- Contraportada.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789585599321

OCLC:

1160047221

Publisher Number:

115944

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.