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Author | Benito Lynch |
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Original title | El inglés de los güesos |
Language | Spanish |
Genre | Gaucho literature |
Publisher | Calpe |
Publication date | 1924 |
Publication place | Argentina |
Media type |
The Englishman of the Bones (Spanish: El inglés de los güesos) is a 1924 Argentine novel by Benito Lynch. It is part of the Gaucho literature movement. A major theme of the novel is the cultural exchanges between the British and the Argentine characters. [1] In 1940 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
A young English expert on fossils meets and has a relationship with a gaucho woman while he is investigating the remains of indigenous people in Argentina. When he leaves, she is overcome with despair and kills herself. [2]
![]() First edition | |
Author | Benito Lynch |
---|---|
Original title | El inglés de los güesos |
Language | Spanish |
Genre | Gaucho literature |
Publisher | Calpe |
Publication date | 1924 |
Publication place | Argentina |
Media type |
The Englishman of the Bones (Spanish: El inglés de los güesos) is a 1924 Argentine novel by Benito Lynch. It is part of the Gaucho literature movement. A major theme of the novel is the cultural exchanges between the British and the Argentine characters. [1] In 1940 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
A young English expert on fossils meets and has a relationship with a gaucho woman while he is investigating the remains of indigenous people in Argentina. When he leaves, she is overcome with despair and kills herself. [2]