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Chargement... EL ZARCO (SIGLO XXI) (édition 2000)par IGNACIO MANUEL ALTAMIRANO
Information sur l'oeuvreEl Zarco par Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  raymundojimenez | Feb 5, 2009 |   Ignacio Manuel Altamirano was one of nineteenth-century Mexico's most important political and cultural figures. Altamirano was born into a modest, indigenous family but received a scholarship to go to one of Mexico's finest nineteenth-century schools, the Institute of Toluca. During the civil wars of mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, Altamirano allied himself with the liberal cause and became one of its most famous and eloquent spokesmen. Altamirano was an avid journalist and writer: he wrote book and theater reviews, urban chronicles (describing life in Mexico City), poetry, novels, and political and cultural tracts on every imaginable subject under the sun. He was a pioneer because of how he promoted modern literary nationalism in Mexico. El Zarco the Blue-Eyed Bandit is a posthumous novel, published in 1901, that may be loosely compared to a "western" (if we chose to use that quintessentially American genre as a frame of reference). It tells the story of a villainous blue-eyed bandit who elopes with a lovely village girl whose good sense is weakened by her exposure to Romantic fictions that idealize the world. Another protagonist is Nicolas, the noble and heroic acculturated Indian who joins Martín Sánchez in hunting down Zarco the Bandit. The novel is an interesting blend of Romanticism and Realism. There isn't a lot of psychological realism, but the writing is engaging and it's a good, quick read that will teach you a lot about the literary imagination in nineteenth-century Mexico. The good guys give great speeches and stand strong against evil in the name of civilization. The bandit villains are grotesque brutes. In spite of these commonplaces of nineteenth-century melodrama, the novel has some very subtle dimensions and makes interesting arguments about the meanings of race in Mexico. If you like reading nineteenth-century literature and general, or if you're interested in Mexican history and culture, this book is highly recommended. In closing, this book is a landmark novel for many reasons, including the fact that its author was Indian. In particular, the treatment of racial identity in the novel will interest students of Native American literature. *Ronald Christ's fine translation recently won an award. (  ) ChrisConway | Jul 26, 2008 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
El Zarco by Ignacio Atamirano in a US printed edition with preliminary study and notes by Maria Eugenia Mudrovcic Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's posthumous novel, El Zarco (1901), is much more than a novel about bandits. Written amidst the pax porfiriana , at the height of Altamirano's reputation within the cultural elite, the novel is a narrative that deals with the chaos and the banditry that prevailed in the 1860s to celebrate the insertion of Mexico into the international markets undertaken by Porfirio D az. Considered to be the first Mexican novel because of its carefully constructed structure, El Zarco is also "original" in its approach to race: green-eyed white characters are the villains, while the heroes are Indian or mestizos. What makes a heroe, however, is not a matter of race, but the strict adherence to honor, family and hard work, the civil values guiding the actions and the ethos of each and every good citizen or "hombre de bien" of Yautepec. The nineteenth century bourgeois obsession with "crime" emerges in El Zarco as the matrix of the two stories that end up being one: "crime" is the cause for the fear and insecurity that paralyze Yautepec middle classes as well as the reason for the glorification of the rural police. Altamirano presents the good love between Nicolas and Pilar as a counternarrative of the sexually undisciplined story of lust enacted by Manuela and el Zarco. But this narrative line seems to be, nonetheless, only a frame to celebrate Sanchez Chagollan as the heroic founding father of the police created by Benito Ju rez in 1861 that later became an icon of the institutional order of the Diaz regime. In the study that introduces this edition, Maria Eugenia Mudrovcic reads the unorthodoxies of Altamirano's novel as part of the propaganda apparatus set by Porfirio Diaz in his effort to change the image of Mexico as a bandit nation that dominated the press at the time. Why Altamirano talks of violence in times of peace , thus, becomes the starting-point for a reading of El Zarco that pays attention not so much to bandits but rather to the police that was created as the only way to combat them. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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