Country judge
Subtitle: a novel of Chile.
By: Translated from the Spanish by Lesley Byrd Simpson. With a foreword by Arturo Torres-Ríoseco.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Country life -- Fiction; Judges -- Fiction; Chile -- Fiction
Description: Un juez rural (1924; Country Judge: A Novel of Chile) was thought by some Chilean readers to be an autobiographical account of a period Prado spent as a district judge. The work is generally viewed as a critique of prejudice and injustice. Its protagonist, a judge without a law degree or any formal judicial training, uses common sense, his conscience, and a simple belief in what is just to resolve disputes, but finds himself viciously attacked for his views. Rather than being a narrow, denunciatory work, however, Un juez rural manifests a sense of humor and optimism. --www.enotes.com.
Notes: Translation of Un juez rural.