The Golden Serpent (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ciro Alegría
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Plot: Composite description of a way of life
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Marañon River, northern Peru
- Principal Characters: Lucas Vilca, Matías Romero, Rogelio (Roge), Arturo, Lucinda, Osvaldo Martínez de Calderón, Mariana Chinguala, Juan Plaza
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Nature, Villages, 1930’s, Storytelling, Legends, Rivers or waterways, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Fishing or fishermen
- Locales: Peru
The Novel
The Golden Serpent is a poetic description of the daily life of a small village on the bank of the mighty Marañon River in north-central Peru. Rather than having a single central plot, the nineteen chapters are a series of stories or related episodes told by the narrator, Lucas Vilca, a raftsman and farmer of the Calemar Valley. Lucas Vilca both participates in the incidents recounted and serves as an omniscient narrator who chronicles and generalizes. The stories that Lucas Vilca tells include many adventures on the river, descriptions of festivals and...
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