Don Segundo Sombra (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature - English Translation)

By Ricardo Güiraldes and Ricardo Guiraldes

Book Overview

Ricadu Guiraldes's great novel of the Argentine pampa, Don Segundo Sambra, published in 1926, has been celebrated both as a national epic and as an elegy for the passing of an era. Newly translated by Patricia Owen Steiner, it is a proud addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press' series of translations from twentieth-century Latin American literature and poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822955245
• ISBN13: 9780822955245
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Guiraldes

An excellent publication of this Argentine Gaucho classic. The compelling story of the legendary quintessential Argentine gaucho, Don Segundo Sombra.

A classic that needs re-issue

Don Segundo Sombra is a classic that deserves to be re-issued. Elegantly written with superb images, the novel despicts not only the adventurous life of the gaucho but also the journey toward self-discovery.

A must read for anyone's list.

I am surprised by how few people know of this book. An excellent novel protraying the master/disciple relationship and questions of ones destiny. It is a pleasure to read.

Fading away country

This is one of the greatest books in Argentine literature. I can remember reading it at the age of sixteen and the impression it made on me. It was as it was telling my own life and childhood in the countryside with the good men that I knew there. And how they all dissapeared facing a modern and much different world giving the word gaucho a more "typical" and superficial meaning. Very, very strange, it made on me the same effect than, lately and older, Islands in the Stream by Hemingway. I strongly recommend it, though my comment is very personal. (sorry about my awful English)