The Bay of Silence (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Eduardo Mallea
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Existentialism
- Time of Work: 1926-1939
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nationalism, Moral conditions, Argentina or Argentineans
- Locales: Paris, France, Italy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brussels, Belgium
Places Discussed
*Buenos Aires. Capital of Argentina and the primary setting of the novel. Argentina’s only major urban center, Buenos Aires is represented as an essentially heterogeneous metropolis, populated by immigrants from all over the world who maintain many of their cultural traditions and have not yet succeeded in synthesizing them into a homogeneous, organic community. This view is often expressed in terms of the unplanned jumbling together of various foreign styles of architecture, which effectively symbolizes the diverse and often incompatible influences that...
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