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Manuel Zeno Gandia concibio su serie Cronicas de un mundo enfermo como la exploracion de una sociedad rural en subdesarrollo y de la marginacion del mundo campesino. Dentro de la serie, La charca, publicada en 1894, tiene un significado singular por su testimonio multiple, basado en el analisis del subdesarrollo del campesinado, el autoritarismo de los explotadores, la ruptura de los codigos de comportamiento moral, la carencia de solidaridad y las situaciones limite de violencia. / Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico's exquisite black cafe, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid huts and rarely saw a scrap of meat. Brutalized by grinding poverty, theirs was the harsh world of Manuel Zeno-Gandia's La Charca, published in 1894, and widely acknowledged as the first major novel to emerge from Puerto Rico.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2419425 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-01
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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• ISBN13: 9788492516537
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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A sad, yet wonderful major work in Puerto Rican Literature
La Charca is a Puerto-Rican novel that is mandatory reading for anyone interested in reading "real Puerto Rican" literature disassociated from the U.S. diaspora. It appeared in 1894, four years before the U.S. war against Spain, and before Puerto Rico became a "U.S. Possession", and twenty-three years before Puerto Ricans became defacto U.S. citizens via the Jones Act. La Charca [The Stagnant Pond] is a sad realist account of rural exploitation and class struggle, yet it reads like a flesh and blood multi-dimensional tragedy, rather than a dry social critique. I will be teaching Latina/o Studies this coming Spring and wanted to see if this text was in print. Happily, it is. It is important for readers of U.S. Latina/o Literature to read books written by Puerto Ricans who were not primarily interested in the Puerto-Rico U.S. encounter, or another stereotypical U.S. P-R prison tragi-comedy with a predictable conversion or otherwise nihilistic ending. Readers should note that THERE IS a Puerto-Rican Literature of the nineteenth century, and this wonderful book is a taste of that rich literature. Juan Flores is a wonderful critic, so be sure to read any article he has on La Charca, even if it doesn't appear in this text. You can reference Flores's articles "for free" by going to JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) via any good university/college electronic research page and typing in Flores and/or La Charca after you get onto JSTOR.

A sad touching novel
I'm not going to sit here and tell you what the book is about. You should read it! It is that good! I will tell you some of its themes. Haves vs Have nots, incest, rape, murder, poverty, love, romance, all throwned into a presssure cooker titled "La charca" to create one of the most touching, poigant stories you will ever read. It has a lot of twist and turns which in the end left me completely blown away.

la charca
la trama se enreda demasiado,el autor hace demasiadas descripciones del paisaje,lo cual no viene al caso y cuando terminas de leer la novela,todo sigue enredado,fue una falta de tiempo y dinero para mi el comprar y leer este libro.