José Emilio Pacheco

Las batallas en el desierto / Battles in the Desert (Biblioteca Era)

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Una novela linda

Las batallas en el desierto / Battles in the Desert (Biblioteca Era)
Jose Emilio Pacheco
Manufacturer: Era Edicions Sa
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Binding: Paperback

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Una novela linda.......2006-05-21

En muy pocas páginas, Pacheco nos cuenta la historia de México en los años 50 por los ojos de Carlos, un hombre quién está recordando su adolesencia en la Colonia Roma, D.F. En este bildungsroman, encontramos de nuevo el primer amor y la entrada al mundo adulto, un mundo en que uno se lucha contra la perdición.

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Good evocative writing

Battles in the Desert and Other Stories
Jose Emilio Pacheco , and Katherine Silver
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Las batallas en el desierto / Battles in the Desert (Biblioteca Era)
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ASIN: 0811210197

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IDEAL VIEW MEET IMPURE WORLD.......2005-06-09

Battles in the Desert is a short but powerful collection of short stories by a Mexican writer that I believe needs more exposure in America. The stories in this book mainly deal with the conflicts that children or young adults have with the world they will have to grow up in. For example, in the title story, a young man falls in love with his classmate's mother, whose declaration of love leads to unforseen and negative results, not because of his feelings, but because of the prejudices of his neighborhood. That's really what this collection is about. The main character of each has an almost pure emotion of love for someone but when this feeling is brought out in the open, such as in "The Pleasure Principle", in which two young lovers are kept apart by circumstances, either a betrayal or the people around them drive a wedge into their bliss. Pacheco also focuses on the plight of the poor in "The Sunken Park" in which a boy is payed by his aunt to take her beloved cat to the vet to be put to sleep for 20 pesos. Him and his friend decide to kill the cat themselves and spend the money on food. These stories are quite touching and written very realistically in a masterful way.

Good evocative writing.......2001-02-07

In Mexico City, there is a big and very traditional neighborhood, where wealthy people lived decades ago, and now is a middle-class place, with nice streets, restaurants, museums, ann bookstores. It was there that the protagonist of this short novel was born. It is a remembrance of childhood. The narrator retells the story of his infatuation with the young and attractive mother of one of his classmates, who is also the mistress of a politician. One day he skips school and visits her, and he delcares his love for her. The visit is known of in the community, and sparks a small scandal. Years later, he will find an ex-classmate and find out what happened to her. It is a good story, full of nostalgia for Mexico City in the 30's.

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City of Memory and Other Poems
Jose Emilio Pacheco
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
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The leading poet of his generation, Jose Emilio Pacheco is one of Mexico's most esteemed and beloved writers. City of Memory and Other Poems presents two of his finest poetry collections, accompanied by beautifully rendered translations.

The first, "City of Memory," touches on Pacheco's major literary obsessions: the destructive effects of time; the essential egotism and cruelty of the natural world, with humankind at its violent center; and the capacity of the human spirit to achieve transcendence. The second, "I watch the Earth," is an emotional catharsis, the poet's mediation on the tragic earthquake that devastated his native Mexico City in 1985. Together, these poems paint a vivid picture of the noble beauty and uncontrollable tragedy that is Mexico-and the world-today.

Jose Emilio Pacheco is the winner of the Jose Asuncion Silva Award for the best book of poetry to appear in Spanish from 1990 to 1995. Novelist, poet, essayist, and translator, he lives in Mexico City.

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An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series)

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An Ark for the Next Millennium: Poems (Texas Pan American Series)
Jose Emilio Pacheco , Margaret Sayers Peden , and Jorge Esquinca
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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If a picture paints a thousand words, a poem can evoke a thousand images. In this illustrated, bilingual volume of poetry, two of Mexico's most prominent artists, poet and painter, join their words and images of animals to create a work of startling insight and beauty. José Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes poems in which animals act as his alter ego, conveying his perceptions of the human condition. His Album de zoología, of which this is the English version, gives voice to myriad creatures who inhabit land, sea, air, and even (mythically) fire. Through their perceptions, the poet challenges much of what is dark in the human psyche--cruelty toward ourselves and other life forms, destruction of the fragile world that all living creatures share. Francisco Toledo, acknowledged as Mexico's foremost painter, also creates ceramics, tapestries, graphics, frescoes, and sculpture. His art is erotic, exuberant, and vital--rich with figures from nature, no few of which are drawn from the millenary Zapotec culture of his forebears. In An Ark for the Next Millennium, Toledo's arresting black-and-white drawings are the visual expression of Pacheco's wise, foolish, besieged, threatening, and threatened animals--our brothers and sisters on this imperiled planet.

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En Resumidas Cuentas
Jose Emilio Pacheco
Manufacturer: Visor
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Binding: Paperback

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Softcover.

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Album de Zoologia
Jose Emilio Pacheco , and Francisco Toledo
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El retorno de la poesía, popular.(TT: The return of the popular poetry.): An article from: Letras Libres

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El retorno de la poesía, popular.(TT: The return of the popular poetry.): An article from: Letras Libres
José Emilio Pacheco
Manufacturer: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on May 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2175 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details
Title: El retorno de la poesía, popular.(TT: The return of the popular poetry.)
Author: José Emilio Pacheco
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2000
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 2 Issue: 17 Page: 30 Distributed by Thomson Gale

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Desde Entonces (Biblioteca Era)
Jose Emilio Pacheco
Manufacturer: Era Edicions Sa
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El Silencio De La Luna (Biblioteca Era)
Jose Emilio Pacheco
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The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.(TT: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between ... An article from: Letras Libres

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The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.(TT: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between ... An article from: Letras Libres
José Emilio Pacheco
Manufacturer: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on May 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3818 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details
Title: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.(TT: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: 1940-1971.)(Reseña)
Author: José Emilio Pacheco
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1999
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 1 Issue: 5 Page: 72 Article Type: Reseña Distributed by Thomson Gale

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