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Mexico's Ruins
Explores the trope of modernity in García Ponce’s writings.
The House on the Beach
Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender roles. This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan Garc...
Juan García Ponce
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Memorial Presented by Juan García de Hermosilla ... in Favor of Changing the Navigation and Route of the Fleets of Spain, from Nombre de Dios and Panama to the Ports of Honduras ...
English translation of a portion of García de Hermosilla's "Memorial ..." (M-M 319, item 3), recommending navigation from Spain to Peru via Honduran rather than Panamanian ports. The translation extends to f.39 of the Spanish transcript.
Encounters
The three stories and one novella convey a distinct sensibility - erotic, nostalgic, visual, refined, almost French in its cerebral tenderness.
