Details

Field of Interest

World Music

Author

José Hernández

Description

"Martín Fierro is a masterpiece of the Gaucho literature. It was written by José Hernández, a journalist and politician who had fought with the army during the civil wars that followed the fall of Rosas’ dictatorship. The work, with a strong, descriptive intensity, and written in a realistic style, sometimes with extreme roughness—with constant sententious remarks—tells the successive misfortunes of the main character…"

Roberto García Pinto


"El Martín Fierro es la obra maestra de la literatura gauchesca. La escribió José Hernández, un periodista y político que había luchado en los ejércitos durante las guerras civiles posteriores a la caída de la dictadura de Rosas. La obra, de gran fuerza descriptiva, escrita en estilo realista, a ratos de extrema crudeza—con frecuentes remates sentenciosos—cuenta las sucesivas desventuras del protagonista..."

Roberto García Pinto


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Content Type

Music recording

Duration

42 mins

Format

Audio

Sub Genre

Prose

Label

Folkways Records

Release Date

1962

Subject

World Music, Music & Performing Arts, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, América del Sud, México, Centroamérica y el Caribe, América do Sul, México, América Central e Caribe, Uruguay, Argentina

Keywords and Translated Subjects

América del Sud, México, Centroamérica y el Caribe, América do Sul, México, América Central e Caribe