Authors: Domingo F. Sarmiento, Mary Peabody Mann (Translator), Ilan Stavans
ISBN-13: 9780140436778, ISBN-10: 0140436774
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: October 1998
Edition: Reprint
Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals and long known to English-speaking readers as Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants, Facundo (1845) is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga. Combining history, sociology, and political commentary, Sarmiento explores the impact of Argentine geography on the life of the gaucho; chronicles the often bloody political and military adventures of Facundo; examines the reign of the tyrannical ruler Juan Manuel de Rosas; and ponders the future of Argentina. This edition includes an informative introduction and a chronology of Sarmiento's life and times. It also restores the original author's note that was dropped for the 1868 English-language edition - and that is crucial to our understanding of Sarmiento and his views.
Ch. I | Physical Contents of the Republic | 9 |
Ch. II | Originality and Peculiarities of the People | 28 |
Ch. III | Association | 47 |
Ch. IV | The Revolution of 1810 | 56 |
Ch. V | Life of Facundo Quiroga | 71 |
Ch. VI | La Rioja | 86 |
Ch. VII | Social Life | 104 |
Ch. VIII | Experiments | 123 |
Ch. IX | Civil War. Tablada | 138 |
Ch. X | Civil War | 150 |
Ch. XI | Social War | 159 |
Ch. XII | Social War | 177 |
Ch. XIII | Barranca-Yaco!!! | 189 |
Ch. XIV | Friar Jose Felix Aldao, Brigadier-General and Governor | 206 |