Diálogo de dos gauchos: Trejo y Lucero

The Diálogo de dos gauchos: Trejo y Lucero (German: Conversation of two gauchos : Trejo and Lucero ) by Manuel de Araúcho is a work of Gauchesque poetry in Spanish, was published in 1835 in his miscellular volume Un paso en el Pindo and consists of 176 verses .

Verses 1-4

Lucero rides towards his friend Trejo. Trejo asks him why he is so sweaty, whether he has hunted horses or game with the lasso and the bolas .

Verses 5-16

Lucero indicates that he is in a bad mood because he has been betrayed. Trejo should prepare a mate for him while he removes the harness from his horse.

Verses 17-24

Trejo insists on Lucero's description and has his wife Chepa fetch a bench and boil the water for the mate. Trejo also offers Lucero tobacco so that he can roll a cigar and begin the description.

Verses 25-31

Lucero says he had just come from the village and asked a wealthy owner of a slaughterhouse for the money for some cattle that he had brought to him beforehand.

Verses 32-38

Trejo interrupts his friend to ask if he is happy with his mate. Chepa should continue to cook mate to pay tribute to his friend.

Verses 39-68

Lucero continues his description: he tied the horse in front of the owner of the slaughterhouse, planted himself in front of his debtor and asked him to pay the bills because he was in financial need and urgently needed the money. The owner of the slaughterhouse replied that he himself was penniless and therefore unable to pay him for the cattle. Lucero then drew his dagger and tried to extort the money from the owner of the slaughterhouse in this way.

Verse 69

Trejo interrupts Lucero's description again. This time he asks why Lucero didn't beat up the owner of the slaughterhouse.

Verses 70-106

Lucero continues his description by saying that he did not beat up the owner of the slaughterhouse because he had shown himself ready to pay him the money after being threatened with the knife. He led Lucero to a chest of drawers and handed him several bills. When Lucero saw the money, he had thought of immediately gambling it away while playing cards or paying his gambling debts. After the money was handed over, he could not contain himself and hugged the owner of the slaughterhouse. Finally he said goodbye and rode away.

Verses 107-128

Trejo agrees with Lucero. Had he been in Lucero's position, he would have behaved cordially towards the debtor in order to soften the debtor and in this way to get the money that was due to him. In relation to Lucero's financial shortage, he notices that the shopkeepers squeezed her down to the last drop. He recently bought his wife (Chepa) shoes for a theater visit. These cost him dearly. In a final remark he indicates that he thinks the shopkeepers are sneaky. Lucero should continue his description.

Verses 129-142

Lucero says that after visiting the owner of the slaughterhouse, he went to Café Catalanes, a famous coffee house in Buenos Aires at the time, to get drunk. In the café he saw a pile of cards on a table. He is not a person who backs away from others and if he has money with him, he puts everything on the line.

Verses 143-144

Probably based on the fact that so many people were enthusiastic about gambling and the owner of the slaughterhouse had pretended not to be able to pay his debts, Trejo remarks whether it could be true that nobody has a penny (where everyone Bring money for gambling).

Verses 145-158

Lucero replies, probably referring to the owner of the slaughterhouse, that this is not even the worst, because in the city you would leave all your money and return to the village penniless. Not even the bakers would bake bread in the village without prior payment.

Verses 159-172

Trejo agrees with Lucero's complaint about the village bakers. They paid a bad price for the grain on top of that. Since the anger began to rise in him, he suggested going into the field and devoting himself to the cattle. The fresh air is still better than fetching a club in the heat of passions and tanning the hide of the village bakers and the allegedly bankrupt debtors.

Verses 173-176

At the end of the conversation, Trejo and Lucero each get on their horse. While Trejo takes care of the cattle, Lucero returns home.

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Text output

Diálogo de dos gauchos: Trejo y Lucero. in: Poesía gauchesca . Biblioteca Ayacucho, Caracas 1977.