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The pieces collected in Mexican Writers on Writing present a vibrant cross-section of Mexican authors’ thoughts on the written word, from Carlos Fuentes’s instructional Decalogue, to Bernardo de Balbuena’s eloquent dissertation on the beauty of poetry, to Octavio Paz’s analysis of the essence of translation. From the literature of colonialism and conquest to contemporary writing, these writers reveal intimate views on what it is to be a writer, and explore just how flexible the boundaries of what we have termed "literature" can be. Contributors include Bernardo de Balbuena, Carmen Boullosa, Emilio Carballido, Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, Rosario Castellanos, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Bartolomé de las Casas, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz, Enrique González Martínez, Angeles Mastretta, José Emilio Pacheco, Ignacio Padilla, Pedro Ángel Palou, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Ilan Stavans, Eloy Urroz, Juan Villoro, and Jorge Volpi.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 320
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Imprint: Tinta Books
Publication Date:
02 March 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781595340344
Format: Paperback
Margaret Sayers Peden is a professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Missouri. She has translated sixty-five books, including works by Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende, Claribel Alegría, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Cesar Vallejo, and most recently Fernando Rojas’s 1499 Celestina. She has received the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Award, the Lewis Galantiere Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Missouri Center for the Book, and the PEN Ralph Manheim medal for translation.
— Margaret Sayers Peden
— Margaret Sayers Peden