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'Amalia' is a 19th-century political novel written by the exiled Argentine author Jos Mrmol. First published serially in the Montevideo weekly, 'Amalia' (1851) became Argentina's national novel. Along with Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Facundo, 'Amalia' can be seen as an early precursor to the Latin American dictator novel through its strong criticism of caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, who ruled Argentina with a strong fist from 1829 to 1852.
Set in post-colonial Buenos Aires, 'Amalia' was written in two parts and is a semi-autobiographical account of Jos Mrmol that deals with living in Rosas's police state. Mrmol's novel was important as it showed how the human consciousness, much like a city or even a country, could become a terrifying prison. 'Amalia' also attempted to examine the problem of dictatorships as being one of structure, and therefore the problem of the state "manifested through the will of some monstrous personage violating the ordinary individual's privacy, both of home and of consciousness."
See also
* 'Amalia' (1914 film)
* 'Amalia' (1936 film)
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Category:Argentine political novels
Category:Argentine novels adapted into films
Category:Argentine Civil War propaganda
Category:1851 novels
Category:Novels first published in serial form
Category:Works originally published in Uruguayan newspapers
Category:Novels set in Buenos Aires
Category:Dictator novels
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