A Perfect Labyrinth?: The Last Half Century in Argentina

Abstract

I remember reading in high school the play by Florencio Sánchez, “M’hijo, el dotor” [My son, the doctor], the story of a peasant’s son who studies at the university and becomes a doctor. My great-grandparents Antonio Carassai and María Pierucci arrived in Argentina the same year Sánchez wrote the play, 1903. Like many others, their children and grandchildren experienced firsthand the history of social mobility in Argentina...