Yawar Fiesta (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Arguedas, Jose Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292796021 ISBN 13: 9780292796027

Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr, 1985

Synopsis

Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress the traditional Indian-style bullfight reflects their attitude toward social change more generally. Included with the text of the novel is Arguedas' anthropological essay "Puquio: A Culture in the Process of Change," written eighteen years after Yawar Fiesta. The article emphasizes the social changes in the village that resulted from the road construction described in the novel. Jos‚ Mar¡a Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. While Arguedas' poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary, making translation into other languages extremely difficult. Frances Horning Barraclough has met the challenge and produced an excellent work that remains faithful to the author's use of language to reflect the lived experience of Peruvian Indians.

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From the Publisher:

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Arguedas, Deep Rivers (ISBN 9781577662440); Asturias, The President (ISBN 9780881339512); Azuela, Los de Abajo: Novela de la Revolucion Mexicana (ISBN 9780881336627); and Azuela, The Underdogs (ISBN 9781577662419).

From the Inside Flap:

". . . a work of extraordinary beauty and complexity, more poem than story, passionate in its insights and written in a style that comes very close to the quality which Arguedas most valued in Quechua, of being 'charged with the natural language of things.'"

-The Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0292796021
• ISBN 13: 9780292796027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200