By Marianela Who has not ever had the audacity secret dream of the famous Zorro, the hero at heart romantic and subtle words that has disturbed the peace of a beautiful young maiden and a bold who has tried to conquer imitate elusive love of his choice?
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Isabel Allende, Chilean National Prize of Chile recently in Literature 2010, winning at last justice delayed, presents his novel The Fox. His impeccable narrative subtly leads us to the past, passages of history little known, far away, with details unknown to the younger generation. Isabel describes with masterly delight real events, with flattery and boldness of its narrative so special, interesting and entertaining, saturated hues that make it very entertaining, compared with the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and our dear José Donoso.
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could say that Diego de la Vega came from a family whose lineage could be traced to El Cid by his father, the nobleman Don Alejandro de la Vega, and by his mother Toypurnia an untamed mestiza of heart that Alexander could not take his blood and, against all the prejudices of the time, he married her. By then Toypurnia was christened with the name of Regina Mary of the Immaculate Conception.
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Diego was born in May 1795 after his mother spent 50 hours giving birth, stoically endured torture that a piece of wood between his teeth, but which was on the verge of death, saved only by her mother , an Indian healer named White Owl.
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our hero's childhood time between games and adventures with his friend's milk, Bernardo, the son of an Indian woman named Anna La Hacienda de Alejandro de la Vega, a vast domain as a wedding gift given by Pedro Fages, governor of Alta California, gives Diego the place to their incursions.
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received a hero's maternal grandmother, White Owl, the Okahué, which are the five essential virtues: honor, justice, respect, dignity and courage. The child underwent Bernardo hard with a lot of testing, inventing their own ceremonies inspired by the tales of his grandmother. The child was honored to be a descendant of the Cid, noble-blooded, but never denied his part because I felt an enormous indigenous pride in his mother's warrior past.
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Meanwhile, his father gave him a foil, quilted overalls and a mask to teach fencing. Diego, from the time he took the habit of training with his father a couple of hours day, and secretly pass this knowledge on to his friend Bernardo.
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Time passes and we find Diego finishing her studies in Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1810, stormy period for Spain by the rebellion of its colonies in America and the invasion of France. On March 19, 1812 was pronounced in the city of Cadiz a liberal constitution based on the principles of the French Revolution under Napoleon Bonaparte at the head, who was defeated two years later in Russia. Here Diego refines its suitability for fencing, while practicing, inventing magic tricks to seduce the beautiful Juliana few years older than him. It is made the suit paper used for Fox and will fight viciously with his opponent Rafael Moncada who claimed his beloved Julia. Since this time, Diego will become the Fox several times, to fight injustice, including the assault on the Citadel, a fortress of stone, wood and concrete, designed in 1715 by a Dutch engineer.
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Between 1814 and 1815, Diego fled from Spain after a long odyssey with Juliana, Isabella, sister and Nuria, nana of two young women. They spend much pain and illness until finally, with the help of some friends Roma, achieve embark for America. The whip, sword and all are saved Zorro outfit for the next adventure in the new world.
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I will not go into the sunset of this novel as exciting and action-packed, on the occasion of producing the interest of the reader to sink into its intriguing pages and find itself the outcome of this adventure, told with good aim by Isabel Allende , on Diego de la Vega, aka Zorro.
. * El Zorro, Isabel Allende novel of 382 pages, Printed in Chile.
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* Marianela Puebla http://amorario44.wordpress.com/
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