Una biografía inmoral: La vida de Aldao

Authors

  • Celina Manzoni
Keywords: Sarmiento, Self-representation, Biography, Autobiography, Immoral Biographies

Abstract

The documental value of the constructions of self-representation in Hispano-American culture of XIXth century has a peculiar glide between autobiographical and biographical styles in Sarmiento’s texts. The flow from the writing of his own life (Mi defensa, 1843 and Viajes, 1849) to the writing of the life of other people (Aldao and Facundo, both in 1845) seems to reach its climax in Recuerdos de provincia, an amazing conjunction of biography and auto-biography. When Sarmiento writes Facundo Quiroga’s life, not only he achieves his purpose but he can also give name to his point of view when he wrote the biography of Aldao and then the biography of Chacho. He calls it immoral biographies and he probably imagines them like the opposite way to the virtuous biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Horace Mann, San Martín, Dominguito, among others. By his gesture, Juan Bautista Alberdi nominates him “el Plutarco de los bandidos”.

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Manzoni, C. (2011). Una biografía inmoral: La vida de Aldao. Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Hispanoamericana y Teoría de la Literatura, (16), 127–142. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/monteagudo/article/view/231201
Issue
No. 16 (2011): Domingo Faustino Sarmiento en su bicentenario (1811-2011)
Section
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