Eduardo Blanco

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Eduardo Blanco


Born
in Caracas, Venezuela
December 25, 1838

Died
June 30, 1912

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Eduardo Blanco was an Venezuelan writer and politician, was aide-de-camp to General José Antonio Páez, independence hero and first president of Venezuela after the breakup of Gran Colombia in 1830. His main work is Venezuela Heroica (1881), a classic romantic view of history as an epic. Venezuela heroica is structured in five vignettes that depict the main battles and heroes of the Venezuelan War of Independence. Blanco is also the author of Zárate (1882), a historical novel that attempts to make sense of national reality; Zárate marks the beginning of the "criollista" movement in Venezuelan literature. ...more

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Venezuela heroica

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Zárate

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La ville régénérative

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ZaRate 1882 [Leather Bound]

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“Refrenar las pasiones de los hombres cuando llegan al extravío de la razón, es empresa más ardua que paralizar el oleaje del mar”
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