Novel
Pedro Arnáez
Not translated into English
José Marín Cañas · 1942
Synopsis
The novel follows Pedro Arnáez, a peasant, into the El Salvador of the 1932 uprising, which the army crushed in blood and whose price was paid by the Indian communities. Built as a novel of formation, it leads its hero from an ordered world towards a world of chaos, between the law and its transgression, the figure of the father and the love of Cristina. The narrative draws on dates and facts of history, viewed from a subjective point of view.
Context
The novel appeared in 1942, seven years after El infierno verde, a novel of the Chaco War published in the daily newspaper that the author edited. Álvaro Quesada Soto places it among his novels of maturity, devoted to war and death, and notes that the conflicts of social rupture are transposed there outside Costa Rica; he judges it more faithful to the traditional models of the novel of formation. The National Library notes in the author the denunciation of the excesses of nationalism and war.
Who it is for
A novel of two hundred and fifty pages, in Spanish, which assumes some knowledge of the history of El Salvador.
Prizes and reception
The celebrated novel by its author, regarded by critics as one of his best works, according to the National Library.
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