by José Hernández · Losada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789500301107
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«Martín Fierro» is the Argentine epic poem by José Hernández, published by Losada in paperback (348 pages, in Spanish).
«Martín Fierro» narrates in verse the story of a gaucho who, forcibly recruited to serve on the frontier, leaves his home behind and suffers abuses that set him against authority. Through his ordeal, the work describes the customs of the nineteenth-century pampa and denounces the marginalisation and injustice suffered by the gauchos.
Edition number 173 of the Biblioteca Clásica y Contemporánea collection, with text edited and annotated by Eleuterio F. Tiscornia. The work was originally published in 1872.
Recommended for readers of Hispanic American classics and students approaching nineteenth-century Argentine literature.
José Hernández was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro. In his tribute, his birthday is celebrated in Argentina as a national holiday, called Tradition Day.
