Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary History
- ISBN-10
- 1904955096
- ISBN-13
- 9781904955092
- Series
- Buenos Aires
- Category
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Pages
- 301
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Signal Books
- Author
- Jason Wilson
Description
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 citys rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psycho-analysis even more widespread than New Yorks.
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