Name: Recollections of Things to Come (Texas pan American Series)
SKU: 18762790
Price: 45.84 EUR
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Author: Garro, Elena ; Simms, Ruth L. C. ; Beltrán, Alberto
ISBN: 9780292770065

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Recollections of Things to Come (Texas pan American Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Elena Garro

Illustrated by

Alberto Beltrán

Translated by

Ruth L. C. Simms

Publisher

University Of Texas Press

Year

1969

Language

English

Pages

300

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0292770065

ISBN13

9780292770065

Edition No.

Synopsis "Recollections of Things to Come (Texas pan American Series) "

This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright, the smells pungent, the many characters clearly drawn in a few bold strokes. Octavio Paz, the distinguished poet and critic, has written that it "is truly an extraordinnary work, one of the most perfect creations in contemporary Latin American literature."

Elena Garro

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Elena Garro was born in Puebla, Mexico, in 1916. She wrote novels, short stories, and plays. Her life was marked by exile, social struggles in Mexico, and her marriage to Octavio Paz. Among her novels, Los recuerdos del porvenir and La casa junto al río (1983) stand out; among her plays, Un hogar sólido. She died in Cuernavaca in 1998, where she lived with her daughter Helena Paz and fourteen cats.

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