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Buenos Aires: A Cultural History
By Jason Wilson
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By Jason Wilson
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The an evocative exploration of the landmarks, events, people, and writing that shaped Buenos Aires.
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 Argentine capital's rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psychoanalysis even more widespread than New Y...
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 Argentine capital's rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psychoanalysis even more widespread than New Y...