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Author_Alberto Gerchunoff
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Latin American Studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780826317674
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 142 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 1998
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a series of vignettes about shtetl life in Argentina first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in an English-language paperback edition as the inaugural volume in the new Jewish Latin America series. Praised for its depiction of how two entirely different cultures could coexist in a symbiotic relationship, Jewish Gauchos was written about a decade after Jewish immigration to Argentina began in earnest. The author, a major figure in Argentine literature, was a great influence on Borges.
""Alberto Gerchunoff was an indisputable writer. . . [He] handled with equal ease the oral and written languages; in his books one finds the fluidity of the good 'conversador,' and his conversation (I can still hear him) is marked by generous and infallible literary precision.""--Jorge Luis Borges
Alberto Gerchunoff (1884-1950) emigrated to Argentina from Russia.
