Status
Disponible
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Publication
Lecturas Mexicanas
Description
Rosario Castellanos was born in Mixico City in 1925. She was a fiction writer, poet, playwriter and ensayist. In 1971 she was appointed Mexican ambassador to Israel, where she died tragically in 1974. Balzn-Canan is her greatest novel. In it, conflicts in the indigenous world of Chiapas are infused with a universal resonance.
User reviews
LibraryThing member snash
It was a well written book which draws the reader into a world of Patrons and Indians as the social order is collapsing. I, however, found it unpleasant and irritating to read because all actions were ruled by superstition, a superstition that wrought destruction and nothing else. Partially because
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of this, none of the characters were likable. As a result, I didn't care what happened to them. Show Less
Subjects
Original publication date
1957 (original Spanish)
Physical description
291 p.
ISBN
9681615301 / 9789681615307