Prisionero de guerra: la novela de un soldado del Chaco, 1936Nascimento, 1937 - 266 páginas Unparalleled companion to Augusto Céspedes's book of stories Sangre de Mestizos, Prisoner of War, the novel by Augusto Guzmán, lies forgotten on the shelves of Bolivian literature. It is an oversight that should embarrass us. Of course, it does not because we do not accompany our lives with readings of value, but with memes in bulk. Or with light texts that help to get through one more day of this long life. Augusto Guzmán's novel is a diary. That is to say: it is testimonial and narrates another experience, the one lived by twenty-three thousand soldiers: the prison in concentration camps or haciendas in the depths of Paraguay. It is, let's say it once, the story of his life in the war. Written with the clarity of your intellect, it places us in the midst of the drama of the slavery of our soldiers, subjected to the humiliation of the whip, the daily humiliation, the savage attempt to deprive them of their human condition and the undisguised desire to annihilate it. Such a hell did not end with the ceasefire, not even with the peace treaty signed in 1937, but continued throughout 1938 and part of 1939. These are chilling data, all capable of filling our mouths with fear and causing us to cry. Only then did they all return. |
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Prisionero de guerra: la novela de un soldado del Chaco, 1936 Augusto Guzmán Vista de fragmentos - 1937 |
Prisionero de guerra: la novela de un soldado del Chaco, 1936 Augusto Guzmán Vista de fragmentos - 1937 |
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