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Buenos Aires : a cultural and literary history / Jason Wilson ; [foreword: Alberto Manguel].

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cities of the imaginationPublication details: Oxford : Signal Books, 2007.Edition: Rev. and reprDescription: 301 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1904955096
  • 9781904955092
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Buenos Aires.; Online version:: Buenos Aires.DDC classification:
  • 918.211 22
LOC classification:
  • F3001 .W68 2007
Summary: The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The citys rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psycho-analysis even more widespread than New Yorks. -Google Books
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and indexes.

The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The citys rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psycho-analysis even more widespread than New Yorks.
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