José Emilio Pacheco (1939–2014)
Author of Battles in the Desert [novella]
About the Author
José Emilio Pacheco was born in Mexico City, Mexico on June 30, 1939. He was a poet, novelist, journalist, essayist and literary critic. His first collection of short stories was published in 1958. He was best known for his accounts of adolescents growing up in a less crowded, but corrupt and show more unjust Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s. This is exhibited in the 1982 novel Las Batallas en el Desierto (Battles in the Desert). In 2009, he won the Cervantes Prize. He also translated works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams and T.S. Eliot and taught literature at universities in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. He died after suffering a heart attack on January 26, 2014 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by José Emilio Pacheco
Las primeras novelas 1 copy
Album de Zoologia 1 copy
Album de zoología 1 copy
Jardín de Niños 1 copy
Poesía mexicana I 1810-1914 1 copy
La novela de las Aventuras 1 copy
La poesa: Siglos XIX y XX 1 copy
La novela histórica 1 copy
La fiesta brava 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 917 copies
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contributor — 69 copies
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 32 copies
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- Canonical name
- Pacheco, José Emilio
- Birthdate
- 1939-06-30
- Date of death
- 2014-01-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Birthplace
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Place of death
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Education
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Occupations
- short-story writer
critic
novelist
poet
translator - Organizations
- University of Maryland
- Awards and honors
- Mexican Academy (2006)
Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2009)
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
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José Emilio Pacheco
Publicado: 1981 | 50 páginas
Novela Drama Realista
Una ciudad y un niño crecen, se transforman y se deforman juntos, arrastrados sin posibilidad de resistencia inmediata por la fuerza de un proceso histórico aparentemente ciego y sin sentido: vidas individuales y existencia colectiva dominadas por la frustración y la impotencia que el escritor descubre en su propia ciudad de México. A lo largo de un relato ejemplar, el autor lleva a cabo un implacable y lúcido ajuste de cuentas con la realidad que le tocó vivir a toda una generación. Y ya sea porque su obra aborda los grandes temas de la literatura (el amor, la muerte, el paso del tiempo) o porque incorpora problemáticas de gran actualidad (la discriminación, las consecuencias de la modernización para México y Latinoamérica, la ecología, la globalización), el autor logra lo que todos los escritores buscan pero pocos consiguen: ser leído.… (more)