Survivors in Mexico (Paperback)
| Author: Rebecca West | Editor: Bernard Schweizer |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300105215
ISBN-13: 9780300105216
Sku: 36503871
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 7.75H x 5L x 1T
Pages:
294
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| Rebecca West''s never-before-published "Survivors in Mexico "brings""to readers a daring and provocative work by a major twentieth-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art, and culture, it explores the inner lives of figures ranging from Cortes and Montezuma to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky. "Witty and entertaining, substantive and reflective, insightful and well documented, in splendid and uncommon prose, Rebecca West''s travelogue . . . is a model of British sophistication and knack for seeing the other."--Jorge G. Castaneda, "New York Times Book Review " "An enthrallingly readable book . . . full of sharp impressions and stimulating insights."--Merle Rubin, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "Luscious reading. . . . The book succeeds beautifully as a travelogue thanks to West''s intellect and experience, with Mexico serving as the vehicle for it all."--Sam Quinones, "Washington Post Book World " |
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In 1966, at the age of 74, Rebecca West went to Mexico to do research for a New Yorker article about the last years of Trotsky, who lived in Mexico City until he was assassinated in 1940. While there, West became fascinated with the country itself, and produced not a short essay but a large book--a companion work to her great study of the Balkans, BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON. The Mexico book, alas, was never finished, but it has been reassembled and pieced together, edited and annotated, to produce a combination of travelogue, political analysis, history, and memoir.
In 1966, at the age of 74, Rebecca West went to Mexico to do research for a New Yorker article about the last years of Trotsky, who lived in Mexico City until he was assassinated in 1940. While there, West became fascinated with the country itself, and produced not a short essay but a large book--a companion work to her great study of the Balkans, BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON. The Mexico book, alas, was never finished, but it has been reassembled and pieced together, edited and annotated, to produce a combination of travelogue, political analysis, history, and memoir.
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"The carefully annotated result reads smoothly enough for stretches at a time, advancing profound (if often bizarrely off-topic) arguments as only West could have framed them. Scattered throughout are sentences as vigorous and rhythmically original as any she ever wrote. It's also true, though, that SURVIVORS IN MEXICO is guided by an overconfidence we might call hubris....But...if she is sometimes presumptuously wrong, she is not condescending. There is no opaque 'Other' in her writing. On the contrary: West took it as her duty to make cultures intelligible to each other, by way of the imagination." - Sarah Kerr 06/16/2003 New York Times Book Review
"SURVIVORS IN MEXICO is the book everyone who has ever written anything would love to write. Witty and entertaining, substantive and reflective, insightful and well documented, in splendid and uncommon prose, Rebecca West's travelogue...is a model of British sophistication and knack for seeing the other." - Jorge G. Castaneda 08/03/2003 Literary Review
"[T]his book never had a chance to grow to maturity. As it is, it remains full of passages to treasure--a slightly rambling conversation in an agreeable setting with a companion whose powers are no longer quite what they were but who still has the talent to stimulate and amuse." - Isabel Hilton July 2003
"The carefully annotated result reads smoothly enough for stretches at a time, advancing profound (if often bizarrely off-topic) arguments as only West could have framed them. Scattered throughout are sentences as vigorous and rhythmically original as any she ever wrote. It's also true, though, that SURVIVORS IN MEXICO is guided by an overconfidence we might call hubris....But...if she is sometimes presumptuously wrong, she is not condescending. There is no opaque 'Other' in her writing. On the contrary: West took it as her duty to make cultures intelligible to each other, by way of the imagination." - Sarah Kerr 06/16/2003 New York Times Book Review
"SURVIVORS IN MEXICO is the book everyone who has ever written anything would love to write. Witty and entertaining, substantive and reflective, insightful and well documented, in splendid and uncommon prose, Rebecca West's travelogue...is a model of British sophistication and knack for seeing the other." - Jorge G. Castaneda 08/03/2003 Literary Review
"[T]his book never had a chance to grow to maturity. As it is, it remains full of passages to treasure--a slightly rambling conversation in an agreeable setting with a companion whose powers are no longer quite what they were but who still has the talent to stimulate and amuse." - Isabel Hilton July 2003
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