Gota de lluvia y otros poemas para niños y jóvenes by José Emilio Pacheco

Urn:lcp:gotadelluviayotr0000pach:epub:98091dad-70c0-423e-b5c9-91e903a6b218 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gotadelluviayotr0000pach Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2jwtnrcjxb Invoice 1652 Isbn 9684116322 Lccn 2005451642 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang es Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l spa Old_pallet IA-NS-1200319 Openlibrary_edition A fresh translation of this classic of 20th-century Mexican literature, ready for a new audience to savor.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:48:28 Associated-names Trujillo, Julio Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40392023 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 'This coming-of-age story, originally published in 1981, explores the intensity of childhood passion even as it mourns the passing of a version of Mexico City subsumed by the tidal wave of consumer-based globalism. Woven into this coming-of-age saga is the terribly intense love Carlos cherishes for his friend’s young mother, which has the effect of driving the general cruelties further under the reader’s skin. This landmark novella-one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times-offers a child’s-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in “the year of polio, foot-and- mouth disease, floods.” A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child’s left to ponder “how many evils and catastrophes we have yet to witness.” When Carlos laments the cruelty and corruption, the evils of a vicious class system, his older brother answers: “So what, we are living up to our ears in shit anyway under Miguel Alemán’s regime,” with “the face of El Señor Presidente everywhere: incessant, private abuse.” Sound familiar?

This heartbreaking novella is a key work of 20th-century dystopian Mexican literature and sadly all too realistic today

Gota de lluvia y otros poemas para niños y jóvenes by José Emilio Pacheco