Buenos Aires: A Cultural History

by Jason Wilson

Book Overview

The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The Argentine capital's rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psychoanalysis even more widespread than New York's. Jason Wilson explores this contradictory and culturally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156656347X
• ISBN13: 9781566563475
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"