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Rómulo Gallegos,

Larry McMurtry (Foreword)

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May 16, 2014 Linda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I kind of thought of this as "the Lonesome Dove of Venezuela...only shorter. Other knowledgeable types have compared Rómulo to Mark Twain or Eudora Welty; they all write with a sense of regionalism, rural strength, undaunted characters, etc.

Fun fact! Rómulo Gallegos became president of Venezuela (briefly) a couple decades after writing this.
There is political symbolism in here, not the least of which is the norteamericano Mister Danger. There is also a whole lot of talk about the land, the cat ...more

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Jan 02, 2021 Jo Reason rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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The novel by the venezuelan writer Romulo Gallegos describes life in the plains of venezuela, in the arauca region, huge expanses of land, very few towns or people, lots of cattle and anarchy.

Originally published in 1929 this book is divided into 3 parts, each of which has short chapters which I enjoy, but there were a lot of very long sentences.

The first part is an introduction of the characters, it is very confusing as I wasn’t always able to tell the secondary characters apart. as I moved o ...more

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