Battle in the Desert

Las batallas en el desierto

The Catcher in the Rye in Mexico
A masterpiece of novels that goes down in the history of Spanish literature★
The Chinese version of the selected novels of José Emilio Pacheco, a giant in the 20th century Spanish literary world and winner of the "Cervantes Prize", the highest honor in Spanish literature, is introduced for the first time!
Mexican national novels have been translated into many languages ​​including English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Japanese.
【Editor's Recommendation】
José Emilio Pacheco is recognized as one of the most important Spanish-language writers of the 20th century. Along with the great Argentine poet Juan Herman, who settled in Mexico, and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, he is known as one of the three giants of contemporary Mexican poetry. During his lifetime, he won almost all the major literary awards in the Spanish-language literary world. In 2009, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize of Spanish Literature."
"Battle in the Desert" is a collection of Pacheco's short stories, including the eponymous short story, a national novel in Mexico, known to virtually everyone in the country and hailed as "the Mexican equivalent of 'The Catcher in the Rye.'" From a child's perspective, the novel depicts social life and power dynamics in 1950s Mexico, weaving personal experiences with social change in a deeply moving and moving narrative. It stands as a seminal work in 20th-century Spanish literature.
※This book is the first collection of Pacheco's novels translated into Chinese. It was compiled and translated by Hou Jian, a well-known Spanish literature translator, and the translation is accurate and fluent.
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【Content Introduction】
"Battle in the Desert," a collection of short stories by renowned Mexican author José Emilio Pacheco, has been translated into Chinese for the first time. The short story of the same name is a national novel in Mexico, telling the story of 1950s Mexico—a country struggling with poverty, disease, and natural disasters. The story follows a young boy named Carlos, who falls in love with his best friend's mother, Mariana, the only person who truly understands and cares about his upbringing. However, Mariana is ultimately "killed" by secular society and disappears from the Mexican landscape.
The novel not only vividly depicts the process of a naive young man's first love, but is ultimately dragged down by the mundane world, but also profoundly reflects the power structure and various changes in Mexican society during that era. In addition to "The Battle in the Desert," this book also includes other representative short stories by Pacheco, such as "The Rules of Pleasure" and "Distant Wind," giving readers a comprehensive look at the creative style of this great writer.
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【Celebrity Recommendation】
"José Emilio Pacheco's novels are compact and reveal the most essential human nature. He writes not about nostalgia but about a memory that can bring a distant 'us' back to life..." - Rafael Tovar Ideteresa (President of Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts)
"In Mexico, a country of 130 million people, 'Silva' is probably the most beloved novel... 'Silva' is to Mexican culture what Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye' or Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' are to American culture. Everyone has read it." — Álvaro Enrique (Mexican writer)
"Pacheco deserves all the awards he has received. He is one of the most indispensable poets Mexico has ever produced." —Fernando del Paso (Imperial Anecdotes)
"Pacheco is the kind of writer who can extract his work to the highest degree." - Jorge Bolpi (Mexican writer)
"With his pen he wrote kindness and humility, brotherhood and the pledge of brotherhood." - King Juan Carlos of Spain

2022-11-01

北京联合出版公司

Lucida

224

9787559664365