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The Englishman of the Bones (novel)
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Wikipedia article
'The Englishman of the Bones' (Spanish: 'El ingls de los gesos') is a 1924 Argentine novel by Benito Lynch. It is part of the Gaucho literature movement. A major theme of the novel is the cultural exchanges between the British and the Argentine characters.Huberman p.3 In 1940 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
Synopsis
A young English expert on fossils meets and has a relationship with a gaucho woman while he is investigating the remains of indigenous people in Argentina. When he leaves, she is overcome with despair and kills herself.Torres-Rioseco p.163
References
Bibliography
* Huberman, Ariana. 'Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside'. Lexington Books, 2010.
* Torres-Rioseco, Arturo. 'The Epic of Latin American Literature'. University of California Press, 1961.
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