The Araucana: A New Translation with Annotations and Introduction - Softcover

De Ercilla, Alonso

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985432503

Publisher: Eikonica Press, 2022

Synopsis

Spain’s colonizing of the Americas inspired a number of verse histories, the finest of them Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana. Having served as a page to Philip II from the age of 15 until sailing for Chile six years later to help subdue a rebellion among the indigenous Araucans, today’s Mapuche, Ercilla returned home not only with admiration for the Indians, but with serious misgivings about their mistreatment by the Spanish. The resulting account of his experiences, composed over two decades and richly embellished with many of the adornments of classical epic, is sufficiently nuanced to be taken, on the one hand, as the Urtext of Chilean nationalism, which it remains to this day, and on the other as a glorification of Spain’s imperial ambitions. Ercilla’s Araucana is eminently readable, frequently engrossing, and unexpectedly moving, its author’s lively intellect and ready compassion never far from view.

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About the Authors

Golden Age Spanish Epic Poet (1533-1594)

CYRUS MOORE was born in Hereford, Texas, attended The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., and was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and at Hunter College in New York. In addition to an MFA in writing from Brooklyn College, he holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eikonica Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798985432503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 558