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''[[Doña Bárbara]]'' is a novel written by Venezuelan author and politician [[Rómulo Gallegos]], first published in 1929. It's one of the most widely known
Santos Luzardo, freshly graduated lawyer from the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, decides to travel to this natal Apure flatlands to see his father's farm, Altamira, with the
Doña Bárbara, on the other side, is impacted when she meets Santos Luzardo, as he is the first man that doesn't fall for her beauty nor bows to her power and influence. This and his gentlemanly manners, so different to the rude ''llaneros'' she is surrounded by, little by little awaken feelings she thought she was forgotten. But as she internally struggles, she realizes that her own daughter may be her real rival...
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* [[Mister Danger]]
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* [[Abusive Parents]]:
** Barbara has no parents, and the individual that raised her did so to sell her when she become of age and never treated her well. In turn, Bárbara abandons her daughter Marisela the minute after her birth and never cares about her until she becomes old enough to be her love rival.
** Marisela's father, Lorenzo Barquero, is too alcoholized to properly function, and he is this close of selling his teenage daughter for more liquor. It's implied than when he was sober he didn't care about her that much.
** Santos's father quarreled with his eldest son due to them supporting opposite bands in the Spanish-American War, a quarrel that ended when the father killed the son in a fit of rage. Then the man [[My God, What Have I Done?|realized what he did]] and starved himself to death. No wonder Santos' mother extracted him from there the minute she could.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: the main trait of every evil character in this novel is their unrestrained ambition.
* [[Antagonist Title]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Santos is no moron, but his city manners and his insistence on solving Altamira's limit problems with law-based solutions makes everybody believe he is too soft for living in the land. Then he manages to tame a wild horse in front of a wide group of experienced farmhards and cowboys, and suddenly everybody realizes he has the strong will needed to deal with all the ''hacienda''‘s problems
* [[The Dragon]]: Melquiades "el brujeador" to Doña Bárbara.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Doña Bárbara. She has the habit of seduce, use and discard men, out of disdain for the male gender
* [[Hikaru Genji Plan]]: unintentional on Santos account, but when he makes Marisela his ward, cleans her up, and teaches her to read and to have manners she soon becomes closer to the kind of woman he likes.
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Lorenzo Barquero.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Santos and Marisela
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: the book doesn't cleary stablish if Bárbara actually have supernatural abilities (since the thesis of the novel is to ward away superstitions to make way to modernity and civilization), but Bárbara and Melquiades does believe they have such powers and interprets things under that perspective (and since things did went Bárbara's way for so long before Santos' arrival, they are not exactly proved wrong.)
* [[Meaningful Name]]: bordering in [[Anvilicious]]. Santos<ref>A legitimate, if unusual, first name in Spanish, meaning "Saints"</ref> Luzardo<ref>Roughly translatable to "burning light"</ref>, Doña Bárbara<ref>While also a real name in Spanish, it also means "barbarian", making her [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]</ref>, and of course [[Mister Danger|Míster Guillermo Danger]]. Also the neighboring farms in dispute, ''hacienda'' Altamira<ref>Meaning "high sights"</ref> and ''hato'' El Miedo<ref>"The Fear"</ref>.
* [[Mister Danger]]: Mister Guillermo Danger, egomaniac hunter and sort-of ally of Doña Bárbara
* Yes-Man: Mujiquita, the secretary of the Jefe Civil▼
* [[The Mole]]: Balbino Paiva, Altamira's administrator, is actually working for Doña Bárbara.
* [[The Mourning After]]: basically Bárbara feelings by her first love, Ásdrubal, who was murdered in front of her. Men have come and go, but no one managed to displace him. Santos almost became her [[Second Love]], but he rejects her and in the end {{Spoiler|she leave him to be happy with Marisela}}
* [[Old Retainer]]: many of Altamira's laborers are old enough to remember when Santos was a kid, and are very loyal to the Luzardo family.
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: Bárbara. She was gang-raped just after a mutiny where the captain of the boat she worked for killed her love Ásdrubal.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Marisela.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Both Bárbara and Marisela fall for Santios, probably the most decent man in all of Apure state.
▲* [[Yes-Man]]: Mujiquita, the secretary of the Jefe Civil
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