Yawar Fiesta
work by Arguedas
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discussed in biography
- In José María Arguedas
Yawar fiesta (1941; “Bloody Feast”; Eng. trans. Yawar fiesta) treats in detail the ritual of a primitive bullfight symbolizing the social struggle of the Indians and the whites. Arguedas’s masterpiece is the novel Los ríos profundos (1958; Deep Rivers), an autobiographical work that reiterates themes…
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