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231 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter yellow cloth with red lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Urbane stories--almost all set in Mexico City. The weakest tales here simply exploit a single metaphor: in "Chac-Mool," a collector buys a pre-Columbian statue of a god, and the god turns into flesh; in "In a Flemish Garden," a Europeanized house is haunted by the Empress Carlotta. But the strongest of them take on Mexico City's schizoid energy in total. An old bachelor, mother-stifled, lives alone in a crumbling house and keeps to the genteel practices of 30 years before (wakes late, eats in one restaurant, wears spats and a bowler): he's eventually murdered by the street hustlers who are his cultural opposites. "The Two Elenas" portrays a young woman so desperate to be hip and "with-it," decultured, that she becomes a mirror image of herself, her own bouncing infinity. And the final story, "The Son of Andres…
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- Title Burnt water: Stories
- Author Fuentes, Carlos
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 231
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780374117412
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