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Recollections of Things to Come

Recollections of Things to Come

Garro, Elena

Paperback

Series: Texas Pan American

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0292770065
ISBN13: 9780292770065
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jan 1 1969
Pages: 299
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright, the smells pungent, the many characters clearly drawn in a few bold strokes. Octavio Paz, the distinguished poet and critic, has written that it is truly an extraordinnary work, one of the most perfect creations in contemporary Latin American literature.

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