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The Mangy Parrot
Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi's experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel -- the first to be published in Latin America -- after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death -- and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain. Though never before published in its entirety...
El Periquillo Sarniento
Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi goza de la fama de ser el primer escritor que ensayo con exito la novela en la America espanola. El periquillo serniento es su obra maestra, el la que refleja de manera abundante las costumbres y el pensamiento de su epoca. La forma de este libro es autobiografica. Un picaro relata las peripecias de su vida, como escolar y como jugador. A la vez, retrata con maestria realista a un sinnumero de personajes--sus padres, sus maestros y los amos a quienes sirve--. Sus aventuras se desarrollan principalmente en la capital de la Nueva Espana y sus inmediaciones. Vagabundeando por la ciudad,m que conocia tan bien, el picaro hace frecuente mencion de sus calles, plazas, conventos, iglesias, carceles y mesones, dandoles siempre sus nombres propios, todos autenticos y faciles de localizar en los mapas de esos tiempos.
El Periquillo Sarniento
El escritor José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), simpatizante del movimiento independentista, encabezó varios proyectos periodísticos a lo largo de su vida, entre los que cabe citarse El pensador mexicano (1812-1814); Alacena de frioleras (1815-1816), Caxoncito de la Alacena (1815-1816) y El conductor eléctrico (1820). Su extensa bibliografía abarca poesía, obras dramáticas, prosa y cuatro novelas: El Periquillo Sarniento (1816), que según Francisco Monterde inaugura la novela costumbrista mexicana; Noches tristes (1818); La Quijotita y su prima (1818) y Vida y hechos del famoso caballero don Catrín de la Fachenda (1832).
Mexican Picaresque Narratives
"This book examines eight narratives that illustrate the picaresque subgenre and its episodic structure, a subgenre featured in many Mexican narratives. In this type of narrative, a single protagonist provides the only link between episodes; survives by cunning in a world marked by hunger and physical deprivation; serves many masters and acts in many roles; is generally alienated; and meets many characters, who form a gallery of human types. All eight narratives are shown to share many of the attributes of the picaresque family, yet each constitutes a unique artistic creation, with variations in context, narrative technique, style, setting, characterization, and focus."--BOOK JACKET.
A Companion to Latin American Literature
A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. It shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the complex and variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. The meandering story of the evolution of Latin American literature - from the letters of discovery written by Christopher Columbus and Vaz de Caminha, via the Republican era at the end of the nineteenth century when writers in Rio de Janeiro as much as in Buenos Aires were...
The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity
While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary canon is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the fullness of the psychological and religious contexts that define this aspect of "mexicanidad." Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity presents a model of failure as a source of knowledge and renewed self-awareness. Studying the relationship between national identity and failure, John Ochoa revisits the foundational texts of Mexican intellectual and literary history, the "national monuments," and offers a new vision of the pivotal events that echo throughout Mexican aesthetics and politics. The Uses of Failur...
El Periquillo Sarniento. Tomo II
Es una obra satírica sobre un personaje pintoresco: sus venturas y desventuras, su vida y su muerte, todo lo cual transcurre a finales de la dominación española en México. Muestra el folclore y las tradiciones mexicanas, las picardías de este pintoresco personaje, y el apogeo colonial mexicano.
El Periquillo Sarniento III
Considerada por muchos estudiosos como la primera novela de América, 'El Periquillo Sarniento' “narra las aventuras de un muchacho al que, las propias malas inclinaciones y una educación perniciosa, convierten en pícaro; y que, al final de su mala vida, arrepentido y reformado, decide relatarla, paso por paso, para advertencia y reparo de sus hijos” (Luis-Íñigo Madrigal).
