La presente antología publicada en inglés reúne 20 relatos de extraordinaria calidad, de la autoría de escritores que representan una muestra de la mejor literatura mexicana de la primera mitad del siglo XX. El lector recorrerá en estos párrafos la irrealidad fantástica, los paisajes perfectamente reconocibles de la realidad y el pasado palpable de la historia de México; asimismo, transitará entre los reflejos urbanos de lo cotidiano y la íntima imaginación que distingue a México de otros paisajes, otras culturas, otra literatura.
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Literature is perhaps Mexico's best landscape, encompassing both past and present, revealing the multiple colors of its geographic expanse and the shapes of its imagination and memory. The Short story provides our best and quickest view - or our most faithful mirror- of all things Mexican. This anthology presents a collection of twenty tales of extraordinary quality, written by the finest Mexican authors. --Josefina Vazquez Mota, Minister of Public Education. Mexico
The Big Read is the largest literature program in the history of the U.S. government. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest, the Big Read is designed to revitalize the role of reading in American Culture and promote the transformative power of literature. Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories has the distinction of being the first book published expressly for The Big Read Program. Its stories, selected with U.S. readers in mind, represent a remarkable array of Mexico's rich and vibrant literary history. Sun, Stone and Shadows is a catalyst for cultural understanding and conversation between the people of Mexico and the United States. --Dana Gioia, Chairman. National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.A
The Big Read is the largest literature program in the history of the U.S. government. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest, the Big Read is designed to revitalize the role of reading in American Culture and promote the transformative power of literature. Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories has the distinction of being the first book published expressly for The Big Read Program. Its stories, selected with U.S. readers in mind, represent a remarkable array of Mexico's rich and vibrant literary history. Sun, Stone and Shadows is a catalyst for cultural understanding and conversation between the people of Mexico and the United States. --Dana Gioia, Chairman. National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.A
The Big Read is the largest literature program in the history of the U.S. government. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest, the Big Read is designed to revitalize the role of reading in American Culture and promote the transformative power of literature. Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories has the distinction of being the first book published expressly for The Big Read Program. Its stories, selected with U.S. readers in mind, represent a remarkable array of Mexico's rich and vibrant literary history. Sun, Stone and Shadows is a catalyst for cultural understanding and conversation between the people of Mexico and the United States. --Dana Gioia, Chairman. National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.A
The Big Read is the largest literature program in the history of the U.S. government. Created by the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest, the Big Read is designed to revitalize the role of reading in American Culture and promote the transformative power of literature. Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories has the distinction of being the first book published expressly for The Big Read Program. Its stories, selected with U.S. readers in mind, represent a remarkable array of Mexico's rich and vibrant literary history. Sun, Stone and Shadows is a catalyst for cultural understanding and conversation between the people of Mexico and the United States. --Dana Gioia, Chairman. National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.A
About the Author
Jorge F. Hernandez was born in Mexico City in 1962. He grew up in Washington D.C. and lived there until 1976. He is a novelist and short story writer sho has published, among other titles, "La soledad del silencio" and "La emperatriz de Lavapies". He is currently a tutor of creative writing at Fundacion para las Letras Mexicanas, A.C.
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This review is from: Sun, Stone and Shadows. 20 Great Mexican Short Stories (Tezontle) (Paperback)
The book of short stories Sun, Stone, and Shadows edited by Jorge F. Hernandez is a great collection of the best of Mexican authors. The reader is introduced into the realm of a country's literary approach, which captures the cultural essence of the Mexican people. Such stories as "My Life with the Wave" by Octavio Paz and "The Night of Margaret Rose" by Francisco Tario in the section entitled "The Fantastic Unreal" touch on the magical realism of Mexican thought and life. In the section entitled "Scenes from Mexican Reality" the reader is given the fatalistic reality of characters faced with dealing with living out life when the reality is beyond the individual to control destiny. Such stories as "The Mist" by Juan de la Cabada and "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!" by Juan Rulfo present situations in which characters must encounter inner conflict in the face of unknown outcomes. This book of short stories brings out the great diversity of Mexican life, from the rural to the urban as well as the wealth and poverty. The vivid descriptions in such stories as "The Square" by Juan Garcia Ponce paint for the reader a picture in which the sights and sounds work together to create from the simple going and coming of the main character C to and from his town's square each day a symbolic metaphor of the individual's life journey that relies on continued contact with the familiar to connect present with the past and thus restore faith in one's existence. Martin Luis Guzman's "The Carnival of the Bullets" is a story that gives the reader a glimpse into the revolutionary past of Mexico by dealing with the conflict created by merging the historical versus legendary past. Such realistic accounting of this event in history of Villa by Guzman's story gives chilling insight into the nature of war, particularly the violence of a revolution where countrymen battle fellow countrymen. All in all Sun, Stone, and Shadows is a wonderfully compelling read on many levels. The diversity of the approach as well as the subject matter of the stories put together by Hernandez is a tribute to a country with a rich culture seen through the eyes of true literary artist.
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This book was published in 2008 and contained 19 short stories and 1 excerpt from a novel, by 20 writers. According to a newspaper interview with the editor, the anthology's title was generated from the three keywords that appeared frequently in the works.
As far as could be determined, the pieces in the collection ranged from 1912 (Reyes) to 1992 (Pacheco), with more than half from the 1950s and 60s. From the more recent four decades, the 1970s to 90s, there were just two stories, by García Ponce and Pacheco. The editor stated in the interview that the focus on mid-century reflected a desire to present works that were distinctly Mexican, whereas writers in more recent decades had become comparatively globalized. The oldest writers in the collection were Martín Luis Guzmán (1887-1976), Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959), Octavio Paz (1914-98), Juan José Arreola (1918-2001) and Juan Rulfo (1918-86). The youngest were Juan García Ponce (1932-2003), Sergio Pitol (1933-) and José Emilio Pacheco (1939-). Others included Elena Garro, Inés Arredondo, Rosario Castellanos, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Ibargüengoitia and Salvador Elizondo. Of all the writers, three were women. For this reader, the major omission from the anthology was Elena Poniatowska. Others left out were more contemporary, "globalized" writers like Juan Villoro (1956-) and Jorge Volpi (1968-). Some of the stories in the anthology were in the style of magical realism, blending hallucination and reality or applying some exaggeration to reality. These included "My Life with the Wave" (1949) by Paz, a beautiful story about a man's infatuation with the female; and Garro's "Blame the Tlaxcaltecs" (1965), in which a woman appeared to belong to both the present and the time of the Spanish Conquest, with a husband in the present and a wounded Indian lover in the past. Another was "The Dinner" (1912) by Reyes, a hallucinatory tale that's been called a precursor of magical realism in Latin American writing. More straightforward, realistic writing included a riveting tale of violence from the Mexican Revolution, "The Carnival of the Bullets," from Guzmán's novel The Eagle and the Serpent (1928); Juan de la Cabada's story about a narrator stopped on a country road at night by eight Indians; Rojas González' tale of a visit to Indians in Chiapas; Rulfo's often-anthologized work about vengeance, "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!" (1953), and "Permission Granted" (1955) by Valadés, showing oppression and rebellion in the countryside, with some dark humor. Another humorous tale was the story by Ibargüengoitia, "What Became of Pampa Hash?" (1962), which appeared to parody a romance between a Mexican and a wealthy socialite from abroad. The rest of the works were for this reader much less memorable. In his interview, the editor stated that one of the anthology's merits was that it included several writers who were women; it would've been even better if he'd selected a story by Poniatowska satirizing modern-day relations between men and women, such as "Park Cinema" or "The Night Visitor." And though the piece by Arreola has been anthologized several times previously, even more socially satirical or profound works by him exist: for example, "God's Silence," "Small Town Affair" and "Announcement."
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