Name: Oficio de Tinieblas (in Spanish)
SKU: 1574310
Price: 1143.00 TWD
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Author: Rosario Castellanos
ISBN: 9780140268331

portada Oficio de Tinieblas (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rosario Castellanos

Publisher

Celebra

Year

1998

Language

Spanish

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0140268332

ISBN13

9780140268331

Synopsis "Oficio de Tinieblas (in Spanish)"

Una obra maestra de la literatura de ficcion latinoamericana escrita por la mejor autora mexicana del siglo veinte. Oficio de Tinieblas La novela transpose acontecimientos historicos ocurridos en Chiapas durante la ninez de la autora en los anos treinta y explora, al mismo tiempo, la lucha de la mujer mexicana por independizarse de la opresion y el machismo de sus maridos y amantes. El argumento tiene multiples niveles, entrelazando las historias del acaudalado Leonardo; su mujer, Isabel; Fernando, un luchador por la reforma agraria; y Catalina, una mujer maya encargada de criar al hijo bastardo de Leonardo, fruto de su violacion a una nina maya. La tension de lanovela va creciendo hasta alcanzar su punto algido con la crucifixion del nino a manos de los indios, convencidos de que el poder del hombre blanco proviene de Cristo. Combinando una gran riqueza de informacion historica y detalles locales con un profundo entendimiento de la compleja relacion entre victima y verdugo, Castellanos captura en toda su extension las ambiguedades que subyacen en todas las luchas por el poder. ------ Oficio de Tinieblasdraws on two centuries of struggle among the Maya Indians, the white landowners, and the conflicted mestiza class in the Chiapas region of southern Mexico. The novel transposes historical events of the Chiapas onto Castellanos's own childhood in the 1930s, and explores, too, the struggle of Mexico's women for independence from the oppression of their husbands and lovers."

Rosario Castellanos

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Born in Mexico City on May 25, 1925. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Comitán, Chiapas; died in Tel Aviv on August 7, 1974. She held a degree and was a teacher in philosophy from UNAM. Awarded a scholarship by the Institute of Hispanic Culture, she studied a postgraduate course on aesthetics at the University of Madrid. She was a cultural promoter at the Institute of Sciences and Arts in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas; director of Puppet Theater at the Tzeltal-Tzotzil Coordinating Center, at the National Indigenous Institute in San Cristóbal, Chiapas; general director of Information and Press at UNAM, 1960-66; professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM, 1962-71. Rockefeller Ambassador at the Mexican Center for Writers, 1954-55. Carlos Trouyet Literature Award, 1967; Elías Sourasky Literature Award, 1972. Her work has been included in various anthologies and translated into several languages.

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