Mexican Writers on Writing

by Peden, Margaret Sayers

• ISBN13: 9781595340283
• ISBN10: 1595340289
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-02
• Publisher: Trinity University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies	p. 1
In defense of poetry	p. 7
Response to Sor Filotea	p. 15
The itching parrot	p. 25
The death of the swan?	p. 36
Translation : the literary and the literal	p. 41
Selections	p. 54
Some thoughts on dramatic composition	p. 65
Decalogue for a young writer	p. 72
In conversation with Noe Jitrick : corporeal writing	p. 84
A question mark engraved on my eyelids	p. 96
Poems	p. 110
Dreaming a novel	p. 123
The lesson of the jaguar	p. 130
Daughter of the park	p. 135
The phases of the moon	p. 148
Quest	p. 154
Crack manifesto	p. 160
Crack in three and a half chapters	p. 176
Of parasites, mutations, and plagues : notes on the art of the novel	p. 182
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