{"product_id":"prophet-in-the-wilderness-the-works-of-ezequiel-martinez-estrada-paperback","title":"Prophet in the Wilderness: The Works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter G. Earle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA universal test of great writers is the quality of their response to the human dilemma. \u003ci\u003eProphet in the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e traces the development of that response in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, from the first ambitious poems to its definitive expression in the essays and short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis theme is progressive disillusionment, in history and in personal experience, both of which are interpreted in his work as accumulations of error. Modern civilization, he believes, has created many more problems than it has solved. Like Schopenhauer, Freud, and Spengler, the three thinkers who influenced him most, Martínez Estrada found in real events and circumstances all the symbols of disenchantment. Many today have begun to share this disenchantment, for since the publication of \u003ci\u003eX-Ray of the Pampa\u003c\/i\u003e in 1933 the real world has become more and more like his symbolic world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProphet in the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e examines Martínez Estrada's foremost concern: the world as a complex reality to be discovered behind the image of one's own most intimate community. For him, the community assumed many forms: Buenos Aires, the enigmatic metropolis; the cathedral in his story \"The Deluge\"; the innumerable family of Marta Riquelme; Argentina itself in his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eX-Ray of the Pampa\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartínez Estrada is the great solitary of Hispanic American literature, independent of all fashions and trends. With Borges, he had become by 1950 one of the two most discussed writers in Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1971\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45307937849446,"sku":"9780292718388","price":53.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ek1QK1U3T2J2Y2xoakNaRkpVcmFFdz09.webp?v=1774147836","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/prophet-in-the-wilderness-the-works-of-ezequiel-martinez-estrada-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}