El Entenado by Juan José Saer
An elderly narrator looks back on his youth as a ward of a sea captain during an early European expedition to the Americas, recounting encounters with indigenous peoples, scenes of extreme violence and ritualized cannibalism, and moments of mutual incomprehension; the memoir-like account probes how those traumatic events unsettle moral certainties, erode the possibility of understanding across cultures, and expose the limits of language and memory in trying to grasp what was seen.
- Published
- 1983
- Nationality
- Argentine
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- Spanish
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- Alternate Titles
- - The Witness
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