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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I read Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, El Indio a while back and thought I'd post a few brief thoughts. The novel reminded me, in a way, of Jorge Icaza’s Huasipungo (The Villagers), about the brutal subjugation of the indigenous peoples in Ecuador. Lopez y Fuentes is much less vivid, but no less compelling, writing about Mexico in this 1935 novel. The book is written in simple language, almost like a children's story. But this tale, which feels occasionally almost like a parable, gathers moral force as it proceeds, becoming a damning indictment by the end. I don’t know what Lopez’s reputation is in Mexico today, but I would be eager to read more of him. Although the writing is simplistic, the message is worth it. I cried reading this book! It gives an image into the experiences of the American Indians south of the border. As Americans we often only hear the stories of our own natives. Often it is fluffed up happy stories, such as Hiawatha or the pilgrims first Thanksgiving. What was done to the natives of this continent was atrocious! no reviews | add a review
The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are powerless. Here, within this bounded and embattled world, a quietly moving story unfolds of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, a tale of brave men and lovers, of prophets and violence, of the tribal secrets put on every child's lips and impossible to forget. No library descriptions found. |
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