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Facundo, Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

mmariabechler04's review against another edition

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informative reflective tense slow-paced

2.75

seba97c's review against another edition

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3.5

Envejecí 19 años con cada página.
Un grande José María Paz. 
Mostly Zzz, pero también soy extranjero.
Fuckcundo de las pompas. 
Muy emotivo el historicismo romántico de Sarmiento, si fuera argentino creo que sí me habría movilizado más. 
El último apartado, en el que se cuestiona ese ¿Qué vendrá ahora? Sí es esperanzador para el lector que proviene de un país en dictadura, como este, su servidor.

cepitademanzana's review against another edition

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3.0

estaba pensando en que hace mucho que no agarraba un libro y me di cuenta que es porque estaba leyendo libritos para hacer bien un ensayo de literatura, efectivamente es cine (literatura)

wiisteria's review against another edition

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3.0

inmensos los ríos, el horizonte siempre incierto, siempre confundiéndose con la tierra entre celajes y vapores tenues que no dejan en la lejana perspectiva señalar el punto en que el mundo acaba y principia el cielo.

si bien no acostumbro a leer este tipo de relatos ( y no me llamo mucho la atención en un inicio), la manera descriptiva de sarmiento y la posición que tiene de la figura del gaucho me resulto muy bien ensamblada.

emmaperrella's review against another edition

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reflective tense slow-paced

2.25

impla77's review against another edition

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medium-paced

2.5

I don’t think I have enough context into the situation of 19th century Argentina to really feel invested in this book. Facundo doesn’t seem like a nice guy tho

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renee_hogan's review against another edition

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5.0

A strangely beautiful book. I love the combination of narratives, factual accounts, and philosophy

teodomo's review against another edition

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* Ambientes: Colonial.

miurii's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

leelulah's review against another edition

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2.0

I agree with his criticisms of Rosas, but comparing gauchos to arabs to imply that they, aborigins and Spaniards are uncivilized as opposed to Anglo-Saxons and Frenchmen is taking things a bit too far. The prose was dense and not engaging at all. It's even funnier to find that he and Quiroga were distantly related. Basically, if there's something I share with Sarmiento is my grumpy lack of comformism towards these who hold power. But, nothing much. He was pretty much your "progressive", black legend consumer and perpetrator. Sure, he did a lot for education and as president of the country, no sense in denying this, but this remains almost absolutely unreadable.