By Nataniel Aguirre
Nataniel Aguirre (1843-1888) was once a statesman and energetic player in shaping Bolivian politics and economics. His novel, "Juan de l. a. Rosa" (1885) functionalizes the stories of the final soldier of the Wars of Independence. the tale is instructed because the memories of Colonel de l. a. Rosa whose thoughts take him again to his formative years at the eve of Independence and his formative years combating within the Bolivian military. Jaun grows up an orphan and his person fight allegorizes the nationwide quest for a latest identification. the radical exemplifies 19th-century considering on racial concerns and provides an strange point of view at the Independence interval.
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She became a patient, surrounded by all the attention that the art of medicine could offer at the time, which consisted of the priests who were the practitioners of the Hospital of San Salvador. She was looked after not only with solicitude, but also with loving care by our good friends and the women who admired and aided her. I did not leave her side for a single moment. It was then—in the fondest and sweetest of voices that I compare with the cooing of a dove in her nest—that she revealed to me the trea- Rosita Is Taken III.
But in this case the description reveals an image that is imperfect, with noticeably disproportionate features: an image of the Virgin Our Lady of Mercy, with eyes bigger than her mouth and cheeks redder than cherries, balancing a miniature of the child Jesus on the palm of her hand that was so small it looked like a toy with which she was playing, (p. 107) This attitude of the narrator in pointing out an image's defects when he describes the representation was already suggested in his depiction of the Death of Atahuallpa: "A work by a hand that was as much clumsy as it was daring" (p.
The two time periods of the protagonist-narrator run against each other in this fragment: the time of the story, when the boy finally goes to meet his father, and the time of the narration, when the narrator writes his "Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement" and has as his interlocutor and collaborator his wife Merceditas. 27 Here, however, it is secularized, and it exists in a familiarized setting. She is thus also stripped of her religious inscription, both as the narrator's wife and collaborator.