by Rómulo Gallegos · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422655091
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«Doña Bárbara» is the novel by Rómulo Gallegos, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (376 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Venezuelan llanos, the novel pits the law and order of Santos Luzardo, a lawyer who returns to his lands, against the arbitrary power of the landowner Doña Bárbara. Gallegos uses this conflict to portray rural Venezuela and the struggle between civilisation and barbarism.
1996 edition in the collection Maestros Modernos Hispánicos of the Biblioteca Universal del Círculo de Lectores.
For readers of classic Latin American narrative and representative works of Venezuelan literature.
Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. In 1948, he became the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. He was removed from power after only nine months by a military coup.
