The Four Seasons of Manuela

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Manuela Saenz It was the last great love of the Liberator, Don Simon Bolivar. He accompanied him during his last eight years, where the political reality that kept him on edge, and even afflicted him, had been hard enough to end up killing him with tuberculosis. Manuela always helped him. Manuela always loved him. With an intempertive, euphoric, calculating character, although unconscious in many cases, Manuela surrendered to her love and hatred, without limiting her emotion in any way. And he was always faithful to the Liberator, even after his death.

«The four seasons of Manuela»Is a book by Victor von Hagen, which covers, precisely, the four seasons of "La Sáenz", and the incidents that occurred during her romance with the Liberator. Reviewing the most significant moments of the liberating Revolution in Latin America, we enter the world of characters as mythical as those who were our own founders.

A work that I have just read, and that I fully recommend. The author is an anthropologist and ethnologist, and also stood out in works such as «The world of the Mayans«, Or«The empire of the Incas«. But, personally, I think he has uncovered, with this book, the truth of a woman who made history. Being that the works of great women are usually allowed to pass, because of this thing that "the story is told by the victors and the machistas."

Manuela Sáenz was a lot, Manuela was "the Liberator of the Liberator."


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  1.   Literature blog said

    I loved this review. I'm going to put a link to it in my next "Best of the fortnight." Greetings!

  2.   Jose Castellano said

    I read the book a few years ago and I have looked for it to buy it and I cannot find it, of course it is a work that dignifies the figure of the liberator of the liberator.

  3.   Feipe Ek-Kaleins said

    It makes me very sad that in the comment to the book, not even the smallest word refers to what Bolivar's companions really were in his deed, because everyone betrayed him, especially Santander, who was a very ambitious and ladino man. I like that Von Hagen said it because he is not even Colombian or Venezuelan, even Latin American so that they do not call him subversive or communist or partial at least. The reality that the book mentions is that the majority betrayed not only Bolivar but Latin America; the only one who remained faithful until the end was the Ecuadorian. It makes me sad, I say because Von Hagen insists on this, especially in Santander's attitude when he returned from exile because Bolivar died. The first thing he did, according to Von Hagen, and I believe him because he supports his statements with an overwhelming bibliography, banish Manuelita because she was horrified by her and as ignorant society did not understand her, she died in Paita in solitude, misunderstood and accused by everyone including many of the Catholic clergy who still condemn her. The writer is a militant Catholic Christian. I know that Santader did in the end as the British gringo consuls told him to do, because he was enemies of Latin American unity. Read the poem Oda a Roosvelt by Ruén Dario; he was also a dreamer. Latin American people want to think and speak in English; there is no more dignity. Where are the loose cubs of the Spanish Lion? They became tame kittens.

  4.   Diego Hugo Andrade said

    The best novel about the end of Bolívar has just been published in Latin America: «Everything will bear his name», by the Spanish writer Fermín Goñi, who has made a magnificent novel about General Francisco de Miranda. you have to follow this author ...

  5.   Rodrigo Villamil said

    I read this wonderful book, many years ago, 40 years ago. I would like to read again, PDF, it is an option.

  6.   Noraima said

    Greetings, where can I find the book The Four Seasons by Manuela Saenz. Thanks