In the canon
Facundo
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1845
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 270
An exiled Argentine writer dissects a brutal provincial warlord's rise to argue that his whole country stands at a crossroads between civilization and the raw violence of the frontier, and that only one side can win.
Our desire, however, should be for union in civilization, and in liberty, while there has been given us only union in barbarism and in slavery.
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