Ricardo Güiraldes
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Ricardo Güiraldes was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.
Ricardo Güiraldes (c.1906)
A room of the Güiraldes' house in San Antonio de Areco, currently a gaucho museum.
The first edition of Don Segundo Sombra (1926).
The home of Alfredo González Garaño, now the Güiraldes Museum, in 2008
Don Segundo Sombra
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Don Segundo Sombra is a 1926 novel by Argentine rancher Ricardo Güiraldes. Like José Hernández's poem of the 1870s, Martín Fierro, its protagonist is a gaucho. However, unlike Hernandez's poem, Don Se
Ricardo Güiraldes
…8 October 1927) was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos. Güiraldes was born in Buenos Aires, the second son of a wealthy family of the old landowning aristocracy. His mother was…
Segundo Ramírez, who inspired Güiraldes to write the novel.