Amalia (novel)
Amalia is a political novel written by the exiled Argentine author José Marmol. First published serially in the Montevideo weekly, Amalia (1851) became Argentina's national novel. Along with Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Facundo, Amalia can be seen as an early precursor to the Latin American dictator novel through its strong criticism of caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, who ruled Argentina with a strong fist from 1829 to 1852.