Survivors in Mexico - Hardcover

Rebecca West; Bernard Schweizer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300098863 ISBN 13: 9780300098860

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The publication of Rebecca West's Survivors in Mexico marks an important literary event: the rescue from oblivion of a daring and important work by an major twentieth-century writer. This book is West's exploration of Mexican history, religion, and culture - a work the author clearly conceived as a companion and sequel to her masterpiece about the Balkans, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941). Although West never brought Survivors to completion, she left behind a series of extensive drafts and revisions that Bernard Schweizer has meticulously assembled and edited. The result is a welcome addition to the Rebecca West canon - a compelling travel memoir/history comparable to her best work, and one certain to gain readers and critical acclaim.

About this title

About the Author:

Rebecca West (1892–1983) wrote prolifically through most of the twentieth century. Her first novel, The Return of the Soldier (1918), is the only novel by a major woman writer to deal with World War I experiences. West wrote additional novels, journalistic studies of the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg, and a travel memoir/historical meditation on Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, for which she is best known. Bernard Schweizer is assistant professor of English at Long Island University (Brooklyn). He is the author of Radicals on the Road: The Politics of British Travel Writing in the 1930s and Rebecca West: Heroism, Rebellion, and the Female Epic.

Review:

"[L]uscious reading. . . . The book succeeds beautifully . . . with Mexico serving as the vehicle for it all." -- Sam Quinones, Washington Post Book World

Far more than a piece of literary archaeology. . . . -- Tom Rosenthal, Daily Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300098863
• ISBN 13: 9780300098860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304