Lilus Kikus and Other Stories - Softcover

Poniatowska, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826335829 ISBN 13: 9780826335821

Verlag: University of New Mexico Press, 2005

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Book by Elena Poniatowska

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""Lilus Kikus" is a rich feast of inspired and original writing." "Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez' translation is immensely readable and the prose feels natural." These translations offer a welcome chance to become familiar with Poniatowski and her distinctly rendered perspective. Recommended for public and academic libraries." "Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez' translation captures both the spirit and the rhythm of Poniatowska's original novella about the coming-of-age of a girl in Mexico's moneyed society after World War II."

Reseña del editor:

Elena Poniatowska is recognised today as one of Mexico's greatest writers. 'Lilus Kikus,' published in 1954, was her first book. However, it was labelled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown woman. 'Lilus Kikus' has not received the critical attention or a translation into English it deserved, until now. Accompanying 'Lilus Kikus' in this first American edition are four of Poniatowska's short stories with female protagonists, only one of which has been previously published in English. Poniatowska is admired today as a feminist, but in 1954, when 'Lilus Kikus' appeared, feminism didn't have broad appeal. Twenty-first-century readers will be fascinated by the way Poniatowska uses her child protagonist to point out the flaws in adult society. Each of the drawings by the great surrealist Leonora Carrington that accompany the chapters in 'Lilus Kikus' expresses a subjective, interiorised vision of the child character's contemplations on life.

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• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826335829
• ISBN 13: 9780826335821
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138
• Zeichner: Carrington Leonora