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The Slaughterhouse
work by Echeverría
Also known as: “El matadero”
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discussed in biography
- In Esteban Echeverría
…powerful story “El matadero” (“The Slaughterhouse”), a landmark in the history of Latin American literature. “The Slaughterhouse,” probably written in 1838, was not published until 30 years later. It is mostly significant because it displays the clash between “civilization and barbarism,” between European mores and more primitive and violent…
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Latin American literature
- In Latin American literature: Romanticism
His story “El matadero” (“The Slaughterhouse”) was written between 1838 and 1840, but it was not published until 30 years later, after Echeverría’s death. It is a political allegory directed against Rosas: a cultivated young man, liberal in manner and dress, is brutally slain by thugs who frequent the…
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