Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (Edición Ilustrada) / Memories of the Future (Illustrated Edition)
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ISBN10: 6073875169
ISBN13: 9786073875165
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.25
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9786073875165
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.25
Language: Spanish
Una obra maestra, un punto y aparte en la literatura mexicana. Escrita con una prosa dotada de deslumbrantes poderes sensoriales, Los recuerdos del porvenir marcó el luminoso arranque en la trayectoria de Elena Garro. El pueblo de Ixtepec es quien cuenta en estas páginas una sucesión de episodios en los que se mezclan la crueldad y la fe, la pasión y el odio, la mentira y la perfidia, con la mirada propia de los grandes relatos fantásticos, a través de un amplio reparto de personajes de las distintas capas sociales, desde las prostitutas y los campesinos hasta las antiguas familias y los religiosos. Ixtepec se ubica en la tierra caliente del corazón de México, en un sitio que es todos y es ninguno, pues se trata del pueblo imaginario en que Elena Garro ambientó su representación de los convulsos años posrevolucionarios de un México en el que la injusticia del despojo de tierras, el racismo y la violencia contra las mujeres eran, como lo son hoy, un asunto de todos los dÃas. Fábula poderosa de las heridas históricas de un paÃs y una época, Los recuerdos del porvenir está llamada a ocupar, finalmente, su sitio como un clásico indiscutible de la literatura hispanoamericana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A masterpiece, a turning point in Mexican literature. Written in prose endowed with dazzling sensory powers, Memories of the Future marked the brilliant beginning of Elena Garro's career. The town of Ixtepec is the narrator in these pages, recounting a series of episodes in which cruelty and faith, passion and hatred, lies and treachery are intertwined, with the perspective characteristic of great fantasy tales, through a wide cast of characters from different social strata, from prostitutes and peasants to old families and clergy. Ixtepec is located in the hot land at the heart of Mexico, in a place that is everyone and no one, for it is the imaginary town in which Elena Garro set her depiction of the turbulent post-revolutionary years of a Mexico where the injustice of land dispossession, racism, and violence against women were, as they are today, an everyday occurrence. A powerful fable of the historical wounds of a country and an era, Memories of the Future is destined to finally take its place as an undisputed classic of Latin American literature.
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