El Agua Envenenada / The Poisoned Water (Contemporary Latin American Classics) - Hardcover

Benitez, Fernando

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809306344 ISBN 13: 9780809306343

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973

Inhaltsangabe

This first English translation makes avail­able to English-speaking readers a power­ful modern Mexican novel, first published in 1961. Fernando Benítez, well-known Mexican author, journalist, and winner of Mexico’s 1968 best-book award, exploits a true but little-known incident by build­ing it into a tightly structured, tense, and tragic novel of social protest.

 

The incident on which the novel is based is a bloody rebellion against the village feudal master touched off by joking comment on the ?poisoning” of the water as one of Don Ulises’s men is pushed into the plaza fountain. Feed­ing on itself, the rumor spreads that the ?boss” has poisoned the local spring, and rebellion follows, with its violent and unforeseen consequences. The result is a frightening look at one of Mexico’s major social problems and glaring ironies?that over fifty years after a revolution fought by the peasant and for the peasant, most rural groups are still living below the national economic standard.

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Fernando Benítez is Professor of Jour­nalism at the Universidad Nacional Au­tónoma of Mexico.

 

Mary Ellsworth, a professional translator, lives in Naples, Florida.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1973
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809306344
• ISBN 13: 9780809306343
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
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