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Tale
Cuentos cimarrones
Not translated into English
Sócrates Nolasco · 1958
Synopsis
Twenty-three tales from the oral tradition of the countryside of the southern Dominican Republic, collected from nine named storytellers. Witches, demons, goblins and ghosts cross paths there with poor people whom fate transforms: the son of Destiny who improves his fortune, the man who looked for what he had not lost, the Nameless One. The title speaks of tales that are “cimarrones”, escaped and gone wild again, in the author's words.
Context
The collection was published in 1958. The Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña reissued it in 2017 with an essay by José Rafael Lantigua, who recalls that the oral tale was the concern of all peoples and stresses the work of writing by which the author fixed the legends of his region. Acento places the book in the literature of the South, where the countryside, the goblins and the ghosts surround the narrative.
Who it is for
In Spanish; short, marvellous tales, to be read one at a time, as one would listen to them in the evening.
Prizes and reception
Reissued in 2017 by the Dominican teacher training institute, accompanied by a preliminary essay.
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