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Hijo De Ladrón
''Hijo de ladrón'' ( es, Son of a thief) is a Chilean novel, written by Manuel Rojas. It was first published in 1951. It was translated by Frank Gaynor and published under the title ''Born Guilty'' by Library Publishers in New York in 1955 and by Gollancz in London in 1956. The translation has been described as skilful.As to the title, "Born Guilty", see The Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape: A Descriptive Guide, Library of Congress, 1974, p 41Google Books References Further reading *Berta López Morales. Hijo de ladrón: novela de aprendizaje antiburguesa. Editorial La Noria. 1987Google Books*Norman Cortés Larrieu. "Hijo de ladrón de Manuel Rojas: Tres formas de inconexión en el relato". Estudios de lengua y literatura como humanidades: Homenaje a Juan Uribe Echeverría. Editorial Universitaria. Santiago. 1960. Page 105Google Books*Norman Cortés Larrieu, "Hijo de ladrón de Manuel Rojas: Tres formas de inconexión en el relato", Anales de la Universidad de Chile, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Rojas (author)
Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda (; January 8, 1896 – March 11, 1973) was a Chilean writer and journalist. Biography Rojas was born in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Chilean parents. In 1899 his family returned to Santiago, but in 1903, after his father's death, his mother returned to Buenos Aires, where he attended school until the age of eleven. In 1912, at the age of sixteen, he decided to return alone to Chile. Once he arrived, he got involved with intellectuals and anarchist groups, while working various jobs as an unskilled labourer. He worked as a house painter, electrician, agricultural worker, railroad handyman, loading ships, tailor's apprentice, cobbler, ship guard, and actor in small-time itinerant groups. Many of the situations and characters he encountered there later became part of his fictional world. He returned to Argentina in 1921, publishing his first poems there. Back in Chile, he worked intensely in his narrative production and, at the same ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish-language Novels
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent city of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
