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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817794103321

Autore

Gonzalez Prada Manuel <1844-1918.>

Titolo

Free pages and hard times : anarchist musings / / Manuel Gonzalez Prada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-47030-5

0-19-993885-7

0-19-802767-2

1-60256-230-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Library of Latin America Free pages and other essays

Disciplina

861/.5

868.508

Soggetti

Spanish literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Criteria for This Edition; Biographical Note on Manuel González Prada; Chronology of Manuel González Prada; Introduction; Selected Bibliography; About the Editor and Translator; Free Pages and Other Essays: Anarchist Musings; Contents; I: Free Pages; II: Times of Struggle; III: New Free Pages; IV: Diogenes' Cask; V: Anarchy; VI: Under Opprobrium

Sommario/riassunto

Manuel Gonzalez Prada was a powerful Peruvian writer and political reformer whose essays and speeches influenced generations of young radicals. He founded the Party of National Unity in 1891, was linked to the anarchist movement, and served as Director of the National Library from 1912-1914. His writings have had enormous impact on the literary and political life of Peru: taking up the defense of exploited indigenous people, broadsiding the landowning oligarchy, and denouncing the social and political errors of the country. In fact, the radical politics Prada advocated then are still alive and