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The Magic Lantern: Having a Ball and Christmas Eve

The Magic Lantern: Having a Ball and Christmas Eve

Glantz, Margo
De Cuellar, Jose Tomas
Carson, Margaret

Paperback

Series: Library of Latin America

Literary CriticismClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 0195115031
ISBN13: 9780195115031
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 16 2000
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
José Tomas de Cuéllar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature. Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary manners were first published. The stories are a sensitive reflection of the effects of modernization brought by an authoritarian regime dedicated to order and progress.

Christmas Eve describes a volatile middle class in which people pursue pleasure and entertainment without regard to morality. Having a Ball depicts women and their dedication to fashion. It is through them that Cuellar examines a society susceptible to foreign values, the importation of which radically altered the face of Mexico and its traditional customs.

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