Libros de Esteban Echeverría (2 libros)

El Matadero depicts a characteristic scene of the terrible times in Argentina before its institutionalization as a democratic republic. Esteban Echeverria transports us in place and time, and allows us to witness and relive the opressive climate of the regime against which he fought, and that was finally defeated by Urquiza giving way to the country dreamed by Alberdi, Mitre and Sarmiento, among many others. Member of Marcos Sastre's literary salon, when Rozas orders it closure Echeverria founded the Asociacion de Mayo, a secretive society following Mazzini's Young Italy. The matadero (the...

Pertenece Echeverria al llamado grupo intelectual de 1837, que sento las bases de la incipiente sociedad argentina. El exito y gran acogida de La cautiva se debe a que es una obra comprometida con el medio social en el que surge y cuya renovacion formal intenta adecuarse a la realidad que describe. El matadero se anticipa en cierto modo a su epoca y desarrolla lineas que seguira despues la literatura argentina. La eleccion audax de un ambiente marginal ignorado por sus contemporaneos contribuyo el exito de la obra.