Seven Interprative Essays on Peruvian Reality

José Carlos Mariátegui, Marjory Urquidi

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Spanish

University of Texas Press
01 January 1971

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Popular culture; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Series: Texas Pan American Series

Jose Carlos Mariategui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. Generations of Peruvian and other Latin American social thinkers have been profoundly influenced by his writings.

Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (Siete ensayos de interpretacion de la realidad peruana), first published in 1928, is

Mariategui's major statement of his position and has gone into many editions, not only in Peru but also in other Latin American countries. The topics discussed in the essays-economic evolution, the problem of the Indian, the land problem, public education, the religious factor, regionalism and centralism, and the literary process-are in many respects as relevant today as when the book was written.

Mariategui's thinking was strongly tinged with Marxism. Because contemporary sociology, anthropology, and economics have been influenced by Marxism much more in Latin America than in North America, it is important that North Americans become more aware of

Mariategui's position and accord it its proper historical significance.

Jorge Basadre, the distinguished Peruvian historian, in an introduction written especially for this translation, provides an account of

Mariategui's life and describes the political and intellectual climate in which these essays were written.

By: José Carlos Mariátegui
Translated by: Marjory Urquidi
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9780292776111
ISBN 10: 029277611X
Series: Texas Pan American Series
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 01 January 1971
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Jose Carlos Mariátegui was born in Moquegua, Peru, in 1894, but lived most of his brief life in Lima, where he died in 1930. Although he was active in political and educational circles, his working career was as a journalist and editor. Marjory Urquidi has translated several books on Latin America.