β Scribed by Jose Emilio Pacheco
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This heart-breaking novella is a key work of 20th-century dystopian Mexican literature and sadly all too apropos today
This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in "the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods." A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's left to ponder "how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness." When Carlos laments the cruelty and corruption, the evils of a vicious class system, his older brother answers: "So what, we are living up to our ears in shit anyway under Miguel Aleman's regime," with "the face of El Senor Presidente everywhere: incessant, private abuse." Sound familiar?
Woven into this coming-of-age saga is the terribly intense love Carlos...
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