Divertidas aventuras del nieto de Juan Moreira | Roberto J. Payró | book new | sale

Roberto J. Payró

Barataria : Bárbaros | 2007

318 | 7h 36m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

20cm x 16cm | 495gr

In Funny Adventures of Juan Moreira's Grandson, Payró recounts the life of a provincial politician, Mauricio Gómez Herrera, self-proclaimed grandson of Juan Moreira, a legendary gaucho bandit of Galician origin. The character, a Creole from a good family, is going through different stages of his life and "climbing" social and political positions from his town, Los Sunchos, to Buenos Aires... A free man, without foundations, without great passions or scruples, who gets rid of everything and everyone who gets in his way without apparent remorse. We accompany him throughout his political career and his love affairs, while he redefines, molding his elastic moral norms to suit his needs, and adapting to the winds that blow. We witness the rise of a young man eager for power, willing to pay any price, including, and above all, betrayal, for a good position or perk. Written in 1910, the novel is a reflection of the boredom with fraudulent nineteenth-century politics, a story of past and not so past customs, a classic of Argentine literature that is a faithful reflection of a political class that does not seem at all willing to disappear... Payró, journalist, tireless traveler, socialist and freemason, observer of the life of his contemporaries, but also attentive to the cultural and historical context, offers us some keys to understand the latest batches of politicians Argentines and their surprising access races In Funny Adventures of Juan Moreira's Grandson, Payró recounts the life of a provincial politician, Mauricio Gómez Herrera, self-proclaimed grandson of Juan Moreira, a legendary gaucho bandit of Galician origin. The character, a Creole from a good family, is going through different stages of his life and "climbing" social and political positions from his town, Los Sunchos, to Buenos Aires... A free man, without foundations, without great passions or scruples, who gets rid of everything and everyone who gets in his way without apparent remorse. We accompany him throughout his political career and his love affairs, while he redefines, molding his elastic moral norms to suit his needs, and adapting to the winds that blow. We witness the rise of a young man eager for power, willing to pay any price, including, and above all, betrayal, for a good position or perk. Written in 1910, the novel is a reflection of the boredom with fraudulent nineteenth-century politics, a story of past and not so past customs, a classic of Argentine literature that is a faithful reflection of a political class that does not seem at all willing to disappear... Payró, journalist, tireless traveler, socialist and freemason, observer of the life of his contemporaries, but also attentive to the cultural and historical context, offers us some keys to understand the latest batches of politicians Argentines and their surprising accession races to power.to power.