Preliminarii la „romanul dictatorului” în eseul romantic Facundo de D. F. Sarmiento
Preliminaries to the “Dictator Novel” in the Romantic Essay Facundo by D. F. Sarmiento

Summary/Abstract: The almighty authoritarian figure, portrayed by Hispanic American literary Romanticism, is a 19th century history-rooted entity relying on the Argentine despot Juan Manuel de Rosas as a reference point. He appears like a violent, cruel, inhuman, cold, calculated, callous, and barbaric creature that symbolizes the strong, abusive, even demonic side of the Romantic universe. Therefore, Sarmiento’s classic book Facundo (1845) - a politically subversive and protesting text - deals with the problem in deterministic terms, whereas the dictatorial character is intrinsically linked to the geographical environment and national history alike, contemplating a world of antagonisms where the despot, a product of the conflict between civilization and barbarism, embodies the ultimate malignancy.

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