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Title: The Campaign
by Carlos Fuentes, Alfred Mac Adam
ISBN: 0-06-097502-4
Publisher: HarperCollins (paper)
Pub. Date: August, 1992
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $11.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 3
Summary: Overly Ambitious
Comment: In this somewhat allegorical novel of early 19th century Latin American history, Fuentes attempts to produce a hybrid historical and philosophical novel. The protagonist is a young Argentine revolutionary and romantic whose travels take him throughout Latin America during the revolts from Spain. The allegory is the protagonist's pursuit of a woman whom he glimpsed only briefly and whom he has wronged. The result is not really successful, partly because characters and narrative seem to switch from one mode to another without good integration of the philosophical and historical elements Fuentes is attempting to combine. Oddly, the book suffers from being too short. It would have been much better to incorporate the philosophical elements into a longer and more naturalistic historical novel, a la Tolstoy's War and Peace. This book also contains some magical realist elements, which seem engrafted into the novel and consequently incongruous. Interesting but not very rewarding reading.

Rating: 5
Summary: the campaing is one of the most enjoyable books
Comment: Bustos being a intrepid person along with Dorrego and Varela, tried to understand and at the same time change the political system that was being experienced back in that time when the spaniards ruled the latin american country Agentina. they fought with an intellectuall manner instead of the brutal, trying to get more knowledge about the political issues even though it was prohibited. They were succesful.

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