BIOGRAFIA ALBERTO RIVAS BONILLA

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ALBERTO RIVAS BONILLA
 

BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR Alberto Rivas Bonilla (Santa Tecla, September 4, 1891 - San Salvador, November 29, 1985) was a Salvadoran physician and writer Bonilla graduated from Bachelor of Science and Letters in 1909, and obtained a doctorate in Medicine in 1918 In the literature, he began in the branch of poetry, and managed to win contests such as the Floral Games of the Centennial of the First Cry of Independence, the First Prize for Singing the Flag, and the Unique Prize for the University Anthem. He was a professor of Medicine and Law, and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of El Salvador.RESUMEN This is about the adventures (more precisely the misadventures) of a poor farm dog, close to a poorer owner, the very poor peasant named Toribio. «Andanzas ymalandanzas» has been compared with the classics of Spanish lapicaresca, especially with «El Lazarillo de Tormes». unusual character. But Rivas Bonilla seems to be aware that these are just resources for recreating a world where Salvadoran idiosyncrasies prevail, for mockery based on a landscape and personal characters. The hero of this story is a dog of miserable condition that became a farm pooch after an incident in the town made him not want to return to him, so seeing Toribio going down the road, he hit him and adopted him as his master Henceforth, despite the bad reception he had in the house, where in the end they accepted him and gave him the name Nero, a coward like himself, the hero of the story makes the surroundings of Toribio's ranch the scene of his adventures, which included as co-stars a chumpe (turkey), a pair of chickens, a pig, a dead toad, a lizard, saints in processions, the odd surprise inside a sack, and even a Bear! Main characters The author describes himself same as an anthropologist doing field work in an indigenous area of ​​the country. “My acquaintance with Nero [= the main and witnessing character] happens during a trip to the city of“ Cojutepeque ”. Strayed from his path, the narrator arrives at a remote canton where an indigenous family lives. Toribio: "a peasant", and owner of Nerón.Nerón: a dog close to home, Nerón, the hero of the novel. The fact that the main character is “the best friend of the man” —not the woman's — defines the loyal role of the dog without a fraternal reciprocity from his companion. The doggy nobility is rewarded by male violence, while defining the secondary and disdainful role assigned to women. SECONDARY CHARACTERS La Remigia, Mistress of Nerón and Toribio's spouse "two cipotes", "dripping and half naked".