News from the Empire / Fernando del Paso ; translation by Alfonso Gonzalez and Stella T. Clark.
Paso, Fernando del, 1935-2018.; González, Alfonso, 1938-; Clark, Stella T.
2009
PQ7298.26.A76 N6813 2009 (Mapit)
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Title News from the Empire / Fernando del Paso ; translation by Alfonso Gonzalez and Stella T. Clark.
Author Paso, Fernando del, 1935-2018.
Uniform Title Noticias del Imperio. English
ISBN 9781564785336 (pbk.)
1564785335 (pbk.)
Imprint Champaign, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.
Language English
Description 704 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number PQ7298.26.A76 N6813 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 862/.64
Summary If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten from this strange era in Mexico's early nationhood. Using Emperor Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, as a starting point, Fernando Del Paso both considers what Mexico is and the country's place in the larger narrative of world history. The book spans the palaces of Europe and the villages of Mexico, yet despite its broad focus News is a book rich in characters and details, a work that opens up this era of Mexican history to readers without specialized knowledge. Maximilian and Carlota are the focus of the book, and even if they are not explicitly on every page, they are always in the background somewhere, providing the humanizing contradictions that fill it. Del Paso draws a complicated picture of two naïve people placed in a situation they could not manage and a country they did not understand. This innocence is especially inexplicable in the case of Maximilian, who, as brother of Austria's Emperor Franz Josef, should have known something about ruling but is completely unable to govern.
Added Author González, Alfonso, 1938-
Clark, Stella T.
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