Now a deserter, he returns three years later to find his home destroyed and his family gone. "That will teach you to claim payment." Home and Family Lost (03:16)ĭisillusioned with military life, Fierro escapes from the garrison.
Stockade (02:03)įierro leaves the fort, finds a horse, and is shot at when he returns. His companion advises him to remain calm. Garrison Life (04:31)Īccused of being part of the opposition, Fierro is not paid like the other soldiers. Soldiers enter, kill a man who attempts escape, conscript the gauchos, and take them to the garrison. The gaucho leaves his family to sing in a cantina. The centennial of José Hernández's epic poem, "Martin Fierro," commemorates the importance of this Argentine epic on Hispanic Romance literature and picaresque novel.
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