The Campaign | The Campaign

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Author: Carlos Fuentes
First Published: 1990
Type of Work: Historical novel
Time of Work: 1810-1821
Setting: Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, and Mexico
Principal Characters: Baltasar Bustos, Ofelia Salamanca, Manuel Varela, Xavier Dorrego, Julian Rios, Anselmo Quintana
Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Surrealist literature
Subjects: Freedom, Ideology, Language or languages, Politics, Race, Sex or sexuality, Revolutions, Equality, Kidnapping, Idealism, Identity, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Spain or Spanish people
Locales: Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia

Set during the exciting and tumultuous revolutionary years between 1810 and the early 1820’s, when Spanish America fought for its independence from Spain, The Campaign interweaves many connected stories and themes into an ingeniously complex novel.

The Campaign is the first volume of a trilogy about the era from 1810 to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and it is about the beginnings of Spanish America’s quest for modern identity and self-definition. The novel is both a vigorous tale of action and a series of commentaries about the purpose of this action, about...

The Campaign | The Campaign

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