Alfonso Reyes es una de las figuras centrales de la literatura en lengua española del siglo XX y uno de los más grandes humanistas de nuestro tiempo. Su fervor por las letras y su pasión cultural lo llevaron a dedicar su vida a los más variados temas: la poesía, la filología, la Grecia clásica, el genio latino, la teoría literaria, el cuento, el ensayo y una encomiable labor editorial.
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An introduction to a key thinker,
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This review is from: Mexico en Una Nuez y Otras Nueces (Paperback)
Reyes is one of the forefathers of Latin American thought and literature. This anthology, for Spanish speaking readers, is the right introduction to the complexities of his work. The first essay, Vision de Anahuac, focuses on a nostalgic reconstruction of the mighty Aztec empire from a cosmopolite position. The second, Mexico en una nuez, analyses the specificity of Mexican history. The small volume also includes two short stories: La cena, a brilliant short story that was used by Carlos Fuentes as a model for Aura and La silueta del indio Jesús. The volume is highly recommendable for students of mexican literature, as well as readers interested in Latin America outside the Boom. Reyes was also a nominee for the Nobel Prize and a friend of Borges.
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A refined Mexican view of Mexico,
By bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mexico en Una Nuez y Otras Nueces (Paperback)
I picked up Alfonso Reyes again recently when I heard Borges refer to him in superlative terms. Reyes' floruit lasted from the Teens to about 1960. I had read a bit of his fiction (he didn't really write that much), but on this second occasion tried his essays, which are indeed very beautiful (not so easy for non-native speakers of Spanish though; he uses a rather elaborate and evocative vocabulary), and it was impossible to miss his influence on Borges, or at least Borges's essays. The "Vision" which the first reviewer mentions, for instance, is a poetic construct, not a scholarly one, really, thought well-grounded in scholarship, of Tenotichtlan as it might have looked, sounded, smelled when the Spaniards arrived. I've seen plenty of poetic pieces on the original Mexico City and this is certainly the most successful, as poetry. Mexico as seen by a highly educated Mexican, "criollo", you might say, who saw the country from an almost European viewpoint, but not quite, a Europe-oriented detachment comparable to Washington Irving's detachment from the Hudson Valley. The fiction is, in my view, somewhat less striking but nonetheless of note. All of it bespeaks a Mexican attitude now out of fashion, and perhaps merely historical, but valuable for all that.
Very interesting and worthwhile stuff for someone interested in Mexican tradition.
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