Mexican Dream Or, the Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations

Name: Mexican Dream Or, the Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations
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ISBN: 9780226110028

ISBN-10: 0226110028

ISBN-13: 9780226110028

Edition: 1993

Authors: J. M. G. Le Clï¿½zio, Teresa Lavender Fagan

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Not one dream but many unfold in J. M. G. Le Cleacute;zio's conjuring of the consciousness of Mexico, strange and powerful evocation of the imaginings that made and unmade an ancient culture."What motivated me," Le Cleacute;zio has said, "was a sort of dream about what has disappeared and what could have been." A widely respected French novelist with a long history of interest in pre-Columbian Mexico, Le Cleacute;zio imagined how the thought of early Indian civilizations might have evolved if not for the interruption of European conquest.In an unprecedented way, his book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, which in its own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.



Translator's Note



The Dream of the Conquerors



The Dream of Origins



Mexican Myths



Nezahualcoacute;yotl, or the Festival of Words



The Barbarian Dream



Antonin Artaud, or the Mexican Dream



The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations


Notes Map of region