Amalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmed from the love story that fuels the plot. Originally published in 1851 in serial form, Marmol's novel recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia, who fall in love while he is hiding in her home. Amalia and her cousin Daniel protect him from Rosist persecution, but before the couple and the cousin can escape to safety, they are discovered by the death squad and the young men die.
Similar in style to the romantic novels of Walter Scott, Amalia provides a detailed picture of life under a dictatorship combined with lively dialogue, drama, and a tragic love story.
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Originally published serially in 1851, Amalia is generally considered to be the Argentinean national novel and, until recently, was required reading in that country's schools. Set in Buenos Aires in 1840 during an unsuccessful uprising against the rule of the cruel Federalist dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, Amalia is part political allegory and part love story. The love story involves Eduardo ...
More Belgrano, stalwart Unitarian and nephew of an earlier Argentinean revolutionary hero. While trying to emigrate, Eduardo is attacked by Rosas's thugs but then saved by Daniel Bello, his dashing and crafty best friend and taken to the home of Daniel's beautiful widowed cousin, Amalia. She and Eduardo quickly fall in love, though their relationship is impeded by his status as a wanted man. Meanwhile, Daniel, who masquerades as a dedicated Federalist, is organizing behind the scenes to deliver the capital to the Unitarian troops, who are poised to attack. While the novel has the potential to appeal to readers of 19th-century fiction generally, this scholarly edition will find its audience primarily in academia. Lawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA
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 | Buenos Aires - Page 493cooperation of the inhabitants of Buenos Aires until the sound of its arms and cheers for the homeland are heard on the very streets of the city. ...more pages: 46 191 193 348 373 383 494 |
| Amalias - Page 313Agustina's carriage had already left, and the silence that had followed her departure and that of her companion lingered on in Amalias drawing room. ...more pages: 154 189 223 571 632 637 |
| Montevideo - Page 139I have called you together so that we may renew our oath to hunt down the savage, loathsome Unitarians trying to flee to Montevideo and join the ...more pages: 253 274 277 380 539 586 |
More | La Piedad - Page 397that he was about to swing his chair around and turn his back on the deputy governor and the parish priest of La Piedad. ...more pages: 110 388 400 457 458 |
| Entre Rios - Page 97I can't be in on secrets that only you and Manuelita are deservedly privy to; but my thought was that since Entre Rios, the.more pages: 42 43 80 214 254 656 |
| Corrientes - Page 253In the battle the enemy confronted us with a contingent of foreigners, which accompanied the traitors from Corrientes as they ignominiously fled the ...more pages: 42 79 254 368 380 603 |
| La Rioja - Page 532The province of La Rioja has rebelled en masse against Rosas's tyranny, and has assembled a large column of cavalry and eight hundred infantrymen. ...more pages: 45 48 80 332 506 |
| Catamarca - Page 209Tucuman and Salta, La Rioja, Catamarca and Jujuy no longer belong to the tyrant; they have come out publicly against him, and are readying their ...more pages: 42 48 331 332 603 |
| Cordoba - Page 167I was leaving the house of a woman who had stood with me as godparent of the same child, a woman from Cordoba, where they make the best meat pies and ...more pages: 43 209 368 500 506 532 |
| Jujuy - Page 209Tucuman and Salta, La Rioja, Catamarca and Jujuy no longer belong to the tyrant; they have come out publicly against him, and are readying their ...more pages: 42 45 80 603 |
| Florencia - Page 300saw his cousin and his friend almost every day; and it was in Barracas and at the home of his Florencia that his heart and his character could become ...more pages: 103 206 237 356 496 561 |
| San Juan - Page 425Charcas, and the adjoining provinces of Mendoza and San Juan, appointing as viceroy of this territory the aforementioned Lieutenant General Cevallos, ...more pages: 34 164 219 500 532 |
| San Pedro - Page 539Commandant Penau's reluctance to land the army in El Baradero, rather than taking it to San Pedro, has caused the general to lose both time and the ...more pages: 322 507 520 532 |
| Paris - Page 46of secret agents in London or Paris when they are out hunting for men who have escaped from the galleys or for outlaws about to be sentenced to them. ...more pages: 82 89 208 588 597 |
| London - Page 46of secret agents in London or Paris when they are out hunting for men who have escaped from the galleys or for outlaws about to be sentenced to them. ...more pages: 145 379 600 605 632 |
| San Francisco - Page 154The clock of San Francisco had just struck five; the sun, nearing its nadir, did not promise for long that remembrance of its past splendor known as ...more pages: 190 249 394 607 609 |
| Bathsheba - Page 626 |
| El Socorro - Page 483 |
| Santo Domingo - Page 607"Do you mean to say that they didn't take you in either at Santo Domingo or at San Francisco?" Daniel went on. "They wouldn't take me in anywhere. ...more pages: 538 608 |
| Alberdi - Page xxiiiSarmiento's biological determinism was somewhat attenuated by his faith in mass education and modern institutions in general, but Alberdi was ... |
| Rome - Page 503Not even Rome under the military emperors, not even in the face of the excesses of its crudest tyrants; not even the modern history of England during ...more pages: 148 156 536 |
| Cochabamba - Page 192in the Calle de Representantes, and then after going on for ten minutes more, it halted at the corner where Universidad and Cochabamba cross. ... |
| La Rochelle - Page 623finally, Richelieu's whole clever policy, applied to the pettiest matters, since there is no La Rochelle or England among us, though if there were, ... |
| Cartagena - Page 538who belongs to a distinguished French family, has the honor of having ended the controversies between France and Santo Domingo and Cartagena. ... |
| Hamburg - Page 113making a curtsy that had a just a touch of elegance about it, Dona Marcelina left, moving like a three- master from Hamburg sailing before the wind. ...more pages: 262 |
| Las Conchas - Page 515Don Diego Pinero, was the justice of the peace of Las Conchas, an ardent supporter of Balcarce's. Don Placido Viera, a civilian made a sergeant major ... |
| Piedras - Page 92The coach turned into the Calle de las Piedras and came to a halt behind San Juan, at a house the color of whose door was so like that of blazing-red ... |
| Venice - Page 655The State Inquisition in Venice during the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The comparisons with historical events or situations in Europe in order ... |
| Palermo - Page 195activity and scope that became so remarkable in the new phase of her brother's regime, which began later on with Palermo and foreign complications. ... |
| Santos - Page 422 |
| Algiers - Page 85In Algiers, war is raging more violently than ever; Abd-el- Kader has even become a formidable enemy. As regards the Eastern question, France alone ... |
| Echague - Page 266"In view of the fact that Echague owed his victory entirely to the frontal attack with his infantry and artillery, this means that our cavalry was cut ...more pages: 265 |
References to this bookFrom Google ScholarRita de Grandis - 2003 - Alea: Estudos Neolatinos Dinah Stratenwerth - 2003 Erzählung Brasiliens vom Reich zur Nation Popular passagesWhen thou seest a people loaded with chains, and delivered to the executioner, be not hasty to say: "this is a turbulent people, whose pleasure is to trouble the peace of the world:"— For perhaps those people are martyrs who die for the safety of the human family. Eighteen centuries ago, in a city of the East, the chief priests and the kings of that day, nailed to a cross, after having beaten with rods, one whom they called seditious, and a blasphemer. But, on the day of his death, there was great... Page xxxiii ... [We need to replace our citizens with others more able to profit from liberty. But we need to do this without giving up our racial character, or, much less, our political control. . . . Should we, perhaps, bring in more enlightened conquerors than the Spaniards? On the contrary; we will conquer instead of being conquered. South America has an army for this purpose, its beautiful and amiable women of Andalusian origin and improved under the splendid sky of the New World. Remove the immoral impediments... Page xxxi Tucuman, the weight of association pulls our hunch into the sure nod ot recognition. Amalia's inevitable love affair with the Buenos Aires boy will signal a national rapprochement between center and periphery, or at least between modern history and Arcadian pastoral. Tucuman was the old colonial capital, when Spain was more concerned with getting Peruvian gold and silver out to the Atlantic coast than with encouraging commerce from the port of Buenos Aires. After Buenos Aires declared independence... Page xxvi THOU seest a man conducted to prison or to execution, be not hasty to say: "this is a wicked man who hath committed some crime against society:"— For perhaps he is a good man, willing to be of service to his fellow-men, and on this account he is punished by their oppressors. When thou seest a people loaded with chains, and delivered to the executioner, be not hasty to say: "this is a turbulent people, whose pleasure is to trouble the peace of... Page xxxiii Bases for the new constitution practically reads like a manual for lovers. In good bourgeois form, it reconciles affairs of the heart to affairs of state. With other "prepositivists," Alberdi observed that as children of Spaniards, Argentines are racially disabled for rational behavior, whereas Anglo-Saxons were naturally hard working and efficient. So Argentina should attract as many Anglos as possible. The problem was that the state recognized no religion but Catholicism and, without a legal sanction... Page xxx One result of the elite's reconquest of power after 1852 (and after it adapted Alberdi's proposal for enlightening Federalism through European immigration more than mass education) was that blacks seem to have disappeared entirely. This time the "genocide" is — quite remarkably — a "textual... Page xxiv Jose Luis Romero, A History of Argentine Political Thought (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1963), p. Page xxxv The general's horse was faster than any of theirs, and for a moment it looked as if he might elude them. Then a gaucho who was proud of his skill with the Argentine bolas whirled this weapon around his head and let go at the legs of La Paz's horse. Horse and rider fell in a scrambled heap. . . . After that the unitarian cause was hopeless. A well-aimed bolas had cleared the last great obstacle from the path of Rosas. Page xxxii Aires takes very little space in this more than 5oo-page novel. It does occupy the center of the book, though. And it is precisely at the center, somewhat decentered thanks to Bello (and also perhaps to Rosas who was clever enough to be a provincial from the central province), that they could have hoped to make their love last. The bulk of the novel is a wonderfully unorthodox jumble of intrigues, drawing-room dialogues, detailed descriptions of interiors and clothing worthy of the opposition "fashion... Page xxviii Argentines was how to maintain political power while encouraging foreigners to make fortunes. Alberdi showed how the double jeopardy could be neatly contained, if only Argentina would grant religious freedom. The result would be, argues this political matchmaker, that romance would literally conquer all. It would Prologue | xxxi effect a parity between prosperous husbands and irresistible wives. Page xxx Less |
