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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J. M. G. Le Clezio , Teresa Lavender FaganPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.425kg ISBN: 9780226110035ISBN 10: 0226110036 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 July 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTranslator's Note1. The Dream of the Conquerors2. The Dream of Origins3. Mexican Myths4. Nezahualcoyotl, or the Festival of Words5. The Barbarian Dream6. Antonin Artaud, or the Mexican Dream7. The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian CivilizationsNotesMap of regionReviewsWe are lucky to have in Le Clezio a writer of great quality, who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature fof the ruituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious. -Le FigaroA [A] compelling overview of Amerindian cosmology and religion... Le Clezio prospects the long textual tradition, ranging from the early soldier-chronicler, Bernal Diaz, to his fellow Frenchman, Antonin Artaud, in order to chart the rich territories of 'Mesoamerican classicism.'A -New York Times Book Review """We are lucky to have in Le Clezio a writer of great quality, who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature fof the ruituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious.""-Le FigaroA""[A] compelling overview of Amerindian cosmology and religion... Le Clezio prospects the long textual tradition, ranging from the early soldier-chronicler, Bernal Diaz, to his fellow Frenchman, Antonin Artaud, in order to chart the rich territories of 'Mesoamerican classicism.'A""-New York Times Book Review" We are lucky to have in Le Clezio a writer of great quality who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious. - Le Figaro Le Clezio is an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization. - from the Nobel Prize citation A compelling overview of Amerindian cosmology and religion.... Le Clezio prospects the long textual tradition, ranging from the early soldier-chronicler, Bernal Diaz, to his fellow Frenchman, Antonin Artaud, in order to chart the rich territories of 'Mesoamerican classicism.' - New York Times Book Review Author InformationJ. M. G. Le Clezio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Nice in 1940. In 1963 he received the Renaudot Prize for his first novel, Le proces-verbal. He has studied the Indian civilizations of pre-Columbian Mexico since 1971 and has published translations of Mayan sacred texts and an evocation of three sacred villages in the land of the Maya, Trois villes saintes (1980). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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