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Oficio de tinieblas (Novela histórica) / The Book of Lamentations (A Historical Novel) (Spanish Edition)
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Product Details
Overview
A cien años de su nacimiento, la vigencia de su mirada crítica y comprometida reafirma a Rosario Castellanos como una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura mexicana.
Un grupo de indígenas chamulas se ha levantado en armas contra quienes, por siglos, los han humillado y despojado de sus tierras. Lo que en principio es un amotinamiento en Los Altos de Chiapas culmina en un evento de proporciones bíblicas cuando uno del grupo es proclamado redentor y crucificado como el Cristo indígena. Un terrible acto de inmolación, ocurrido a mediados del siglo XIX, que expone las raíces de una tierra escindida por la rapacidad y el fanatismo.
Obra maestra de la narrativa latinoamericana, en Oficio de tinieblas (1962), Rosario Castellanos se sumerge en la historia y en sus protagonistas para comprender las circunstancias que llevaron a un pueblo a tan desgarrador acontecimiento, por medio de una extraordinaria narración que retrata, en toda su crudeza, la opresión del mundo indígena.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A hundred years after her birth, the relevance of Rosario Castellanos’s critical and committed vision reaffirms her as one of the essential voices of Mexican literature.
A group of Chamula indigenous people rise up in arms against those who, for centuries, have humiliated and dispossessed them of their lands. What begins as an uprising in the Highlands of Chiapas culminates in a biblical-scale event when one of them is proclaimed redeemer and crucified as the Indigenous Christ. A terrible act of self-immolation, occurring in the mid-19th century, that exposes the roots of a land divided by greed and fanaticism.
A masterpiece of Latin American narrative, in The Book of Lamentations (1962), Rosario Castellanos delves into history and its protagonists to understand the circumstances that led a people to such a harrowing event, through an extraordinary narration that portrays, in all its rawness, the oppression of the indigenous world.
