![]() Yet he remains immune to her appeal, instead becoming attracted to her daughter, Marisela. When Santos Luzardo returns home to his family land, he discovers that the magnetic Do\xF1a B\圎1rbara controls most of his territory. ![]() ![]() Her manipulative character and rural outlook, however, ensure that this power is a force for no good instead, she represents a terrorizing barbarism in its fight against civilization, which is so often featured in 20th-century Latin American literature. Do\xF1a B\圎1rbara, the heroine of this novel, is at once beautiful, captivating, and powerful. First published in 1929, this classic by Gallegos (1884-1969), president of Venezuela in 1948 before a coup forced him into temporary exile, is set in the isolated and mysterious Venezuelan plains. ![]()
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