by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento · Libsa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476727232
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«Facundo» is the sociological essay by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, published by Libsa in hardback (284 pages, in Spanish).
Essay on Argentine thought in which Sarmiento contrasts the civilisation of cities and Europe with the barbarism of the countryside and caudillismo. Through the Rioja caudillo Facundo Quiroga, he examines the tensions between progress and tradition, and defends education and modernisation as ways to build the country.
Original title of the work: Facundo o civilización y barbarie en las pampas argentinas, published in 1845. 1994 edition from the Grandes Autores Literatura Universal collection.
For those interested in classics of Argentine literature, 19th-century history and Hispanic American political thought.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina.
