Dec 24, 2009
All Green Shall Perish | All Green Shall Perish
At a glance:
- Author: Eduardo Mallea
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Plot: Existential psychodrama
- Time of Work: The 1930’s and early 1940’s, prior to the rise to power of Juan
Perón
- Setting: Ingeniero White, Bahía Blanca, and Nicanor Cruz’s (ranch)
on the southern pampa near Bahía Blanca, Argentina
- Principal Characters: Ágata Cruz, Nicanor Cruz, Doctor Reba, Sotero, Ema de Volpe
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Existential literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, 1940’s, Alienation, 1930’s, Mental illness, Depression, mental, Argentina or Argentineans, Loneliness
- Locales: Argentina
The Novel
All Green Shall Perish is divided into two parts. Each depicts a crucial period in the life
of Ágata Cruz, and virtually all the action of the novel takes place within
Ágata’s anguished consciousness. The theme and tone are established in the somber
description of the desolate landscape of Nicanor Cruz’s estancia at the beginning of
part 1. The drought suffered by the barren land is mirrored in the barren relationship of Nicanor and
Ágata Cruz, who remain childless after fifteen years of marriage and estranged from each
other by their inability to...
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