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Bezig met laden... Mexicaanse tango (1986)door Ángeles Mastretta
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Catalina es una adolescente cuando conoce al general Andrés Ascencio, candidato a gobernador del Estado de Puebla. En poco tiempo se enamoran y casan. Paulatinamente, Catalina descubre un lugar que ella, sin experiencia ni madurez, ocupa en la turbulenta vida pública y amorosa del general. Pero Catalina no acepta la forma de vida que se le impone. Ella sigue siendo una criatura apasionada e imaginativa en un contexto social engañoso, donde la mujer representa una figura exquisita, pero marginal. I didn't enjoy this novel, set in 1930's post-revolutionnary Mexico. The book opens with the marriage at an early age of the narrator, Catalina, to a much older general, Andres Ascencio, and ends about 15 years later with Ascencio's death. Catalina is my main problem; I found her wholly unlikeable, and often found myself wanting to reach into the novel and give her a slap. I know that this is supposed to be a feminist novel about a woman's journey towards self-determination in a macho world, but in fact her "journey" seems to take her from submissive wife who refuses to believe her husband is involved in mass killings despite all the evidence, to selfish woman who, at best, ignores her children completely ("it was years since I'd last played with my children") or, at worst, lives out her many affairs under their noses. Yes, I know we've seen the heroines of the great 19th century adultery novels behave like this, but Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina and Ana Ozores get away with it by being better-drawn characters in better-written novels. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)suhrkamp taschenbuch (1787)
"Excellent, highly colloquial translation of Arráncame la vida (see HLAS 48:5193), set in post-revolutionary Mexico. Peden has created a sparkling, irreverent Catalina, Mastretta's first-person protagonist who narrates her coming of age through a marriage to a retired general much older than herself. No background information. For historical introduction, see Ann Wright's translation of this novel, Mexican bolero (HLAS 54:5031)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Ambición, matrimonio, adulterio, sacrificio y venganza; la historia amorosa de la temperamental y apasionada Catalina Ascencio...