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Recollection of a Provincial Past (Paperback, New)
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Recollection of a Provincial Past (Paperback, New)
Series: Library of Latin America
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading
writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and
served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several
autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past
is one of the indisputable classics of Spanish American literature,
as well as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the
Americas in Spanish. Written in exile in 1850, the memoirs describe
his childhood and adolescence in an Andean province whose customs
were still those of a colony. Sarmiento presents his life as the
triumph of civilization over barbarism; looking back on his youth,
he measures his wealth and strength by the accumulation of
enriching personal and political experiences. He compares himself
to the newly independent Argentina, claiming to be a historically
representative individual whose trajectory serves to illuminate
contemporary South America.
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