Description
This landmark novellaone of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark timesoffers a childs-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods. A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a childs left to ponder how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness. When Carlos laments the cruelty and corruption, the evils of a vicious class system, his older brother answers: So what, we are living up to our ears in shit anyway under Miguel Alem?s regime, with the face of El Senor Presidente everywhere: incessant, private abuse. Sound familiar?
Woven into this coming-of-age saga is the terribly intense love Carlos cherishes for his friends young mother, which has the effect of driving the general cruelties further under the readers skin. The acclaimed translator Katherine Silver has greatly revised her original translation, enlivening afresh this remarkable work.
Author: Jose Emilio Pacheco
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 7.09h x 4.33w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9780811230957
Language: English
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