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Inspired in Don Segundo Ramirez, a cattle drover Ricardo Giraldes
met personally and whose tomb lies in San Antonio de Areco, very
close to the author's own, don Segundo Sombra more than a novel is
a lesson on the gaucho lifestyle. Ricardo Giraldes, a friend of
Jorge Luis Borges -they both founded the legendary magazine Proa-
managed to develop a simple and modern language, a high quality
mixture of literacy and colourful local camp expressions that
earned him a major standing among the best representatives of
"criollismo." Even though it may be considered as a continuity with
Martn Fierro, more than an extiguished gaucho elegy don Segundo
Sombra proposes new ethical examples to a youth that Giraldes
considered disoriented and restless. Basically structured as
lessons to be absorbed departing from inexperience, lessons on
labour, amusement, morals, camp chores (horse taming, cattle rodeo,
raw hide handy work, animal healing, etc.), they become an example
of "lo argentino" supported by a very specific and precise lexikon.
Our edition includes more than 300 lexicographic notes,
conveniently placed at the bottom of the pages and intended to help
the modern reader grasp the exact meaning of the text without
obtrusive lengthy interruptions. The notes were made after a
careful research work that included the critical Martin Fierro
editions by Eleuterio F. Tiscornia, Ed. Losada, Buenos Aires, 1941;
by Carlos Alberto Leumann, Ed. Angel de Estrada, Buenos Aires,
1945; and by Santiago M. Lugones, Ed. Centurin, Buenos Aires, 1948;
their own notes compared between them and with the critical edition
by Elida Lois y Angel Nuez, Ed. ALLCA XX (Association Archives de
la Littrature Latinoamricaine, des Carabes et Africaine du XX
Sicle), Paris 2001; with Leopoldo Lugones en El payador, Ed.
Centurin, Bs. As. 1948 (and Stockcero 2004); Francisco Castro in
Vocabulario y frases del Martn Fierro, Ed. Kraft, Bs. As. 1950, and
Domingo Bravo en El Quichua en el Martn Fierro y Don Segundo
Sombra, Ed. Instituto Amigos del Libro Argentino, Bs. As. 1968;
Horacio J. Becco en don Segundo Sombra y su vocabulario, Ed.
Ollantay, Bs. As. 1952; Ramn R. Capdevila 1700 refranes, dichos y
modismos (regin central bonaerense), Ed. Patria, Bs. As. 1955;
Emilio Solanet Pelajes Criollos, Ed. Kraft, Bs. As. 1955; and Tito
Saubidet Vocabulario y refranero criollo, Ed. Kraft, Bs. As. 1943
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