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Fuentes, Carlos
by The Buried Mirror: Reflections On Spain and the New World
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0395479789
- ISBN 13
- 9780395479780
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About This Item
Boston. 1992. April 1992. Houghton Mifflin. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 0395479789. paperback. Signed by the Author. keywords: Latin America Translated History Mexico. FROM THE PUBLISHER - IIn his introduction to this passionate history of Spain and the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas, Carlos Fuentes asks the question: What do we really have to celebrate of Columbus's historic voyage to the New World? After all, the quincentennial of the discovery of America' finds Latin American republics in a state of deep crisis, with inflation, unemployment, and excessive foreign debt threatening their still precarious economic and political institutions. From the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the walls of East Los Angeles, images of Spain and the Americas speak to us of the great variety of Spanish culture. Carlos Fuentes knows this culture intimately. Combining a sophisticated perspective on world events and a novelist's eye for irony and metaphor, he weaves a historical narrative of dazzling color and vibrancy. Sweeping across centuries of tumultuous history, Fuentes gives new life to monarchs and conquistadors, to Indian cultures and revolutions, and finally to modern-day Spain, Latin America, and the Hispanic United States, History and its players come alive on every page, in the stories of the famous and the little-known, the heroes and tyrants, martyrs and saints, virgins and kings. Using the illuminating metaphor of mirrors, inspired by mirrors found in ancient burial caches in the Americas, Fuentes challenges us to think in new ways about how a national character is formed, how a stereotype evolves, and what continuities are discovered when a human community truly understands its roots. inventory #24808 ISBN: 0395479789.
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- Seller
- Zeno's (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 24808
- Title
- Fuentes, Carlos
- Author
- The Buried Mirror: Reflections On Spain and the New World
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0395479789
- ISBN 13
- 9780395479780
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin (t)
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 1992
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