Dec 28, 2009

The Bay of Silence | The Bay of Silence

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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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The Bay of Silence | The Bay of Silence

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