Who are the gauchos?
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Inodoro Pereyra y Medieta Creaciones de Roberto Fontanarrosa |
Right
now, we are just going to focus on the gaucho.
People make different assumptions of what a gaucho
is:
a cowboy, someone who drinks mate
all
day long, someone who does not work and eats meat. But this is not
true at all. The gaucho represents
what it truly means to be Argentine.
Here
you can watch a video from the National Geographic that gives you a
better idea.
The
most popular gaucho in
Argentine literature is Martín Fierro. The book “El Gaucho Martín
Fierro”, written by José Hernández, is an epic poem published in
two parts -the second part is called “La vuelta de Martín Fierro”.
The main character of this book is Martín Fierro, a gaucho
who
deserts military service and returns home to find his
farm abandoned and his family gone.
The
poem was very well received both by readers and by critics, and it is
still the most representative book of the gauchesque.
You
can click here to see an English version of the two books:
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