Mexican literature Part 2
I have now read twenty Mexican novels in a row. So what have I learned? Well, Mexican literature is as varied as any other well developed literature. I found post-modern…
I have now read twenty Mexican novels in a row. So what have I learned? Well, Mexican literature is as varied as any other well developed literature. I found post-modern…
The latest addition to my website is Yuri Herrera's Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Signs Preceding the End of the World). This is a superb short novel which…
The latest addition to my website is Elena Poniatowska's Leonora (Leonora). This is a feminist biographical novel about Leonora Carrington. Carrington was a Surrealist painter, something quite rare for an…
The latest addition to my website is Antonio Ortuño's El buscador de cabezas [The Head Hunter]. This novel tells the story of Alex Faber who gets involved in the extreme…
The latest addition to my website is Hernán Lara Zavala's Península, Península [Peninsula, Peninsula]. This novel, set in the mid 1800s, concerns a native uprising in Yucatán, a result of…
The latest addition to my website is Daniel Sada's Casi nunca (Almost Never), one of two novels by this Mexican writer translated into English. Sada was highly praised by Roberto…
The latest addition to my website is Eve Gil's Tinta violeta: Sho-shan segunda temporada [Violet Ink: Sho-shan second season]. Gil has called this novel, and others she has written, mangic…
The latest addition to my website is Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli's Heridas de agua [Wounds of Water]. This is a quirky novel about Mexican history and politics, with some of the…
The latest addition to my website is Luis Jorge Boone's Las afueras [The Outskirts]. Boone is a Mexican writer, mainly known for his poetry and short stories (one collection has…
The latest addition to my website is Cristina Rivera-Garza's Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry). The novel is set at the end of the nineteenth and…