Recollections of Things to Come

Elena Garro (Author), Ruth L.C. Simms (Translated by), Alberto Beltrán (Illustrated by)

9780292770065

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1969

299 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.399 kg

This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright, the smells pungent, the many characters clearly drawn in a few bold strokes. Octavio Paz, the distinguished poet and critic, has written that it "is truly an extraordinnary work, one of the most perfect creations in contemporary Latin American literature."

• Introduction
• Part One
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
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  • Seven
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  • Eleven
  • Twelve
  • Thirteen
  • Fourteen
• Part Two
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
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  • Five
  • Six
  • Seven
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  • Eleven
  • Twelve
  • Thirteen
  • Fourteen
  • Fifteen
  • Sixteen