Vida Y Hechos Del Famoso Caballero Don Catrín De La Fachenda

Vida Y Hechos Del Famoso Caballero Don Catrín De La Fachenda - Texts and Translations

Paperback (30 Nov 2021) | Spanish

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Publisher's Synopsis

Don Catrìn de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquìn Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrìn is three things at once: a rakish pìcaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrìn, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of the self considered more extrinsic, such as appearance and social disguise. While not directly mentioning the Mexican wars of independence, Don Catrìn offers a vivid representation of the political and social frictions that burst into violence around 1810 and gave birth to the independent countries of Latin America.

Book information

ISBN: 9781603295345
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Imprint: Modern Language Association of America
Pub date:
DEWEY: 863.5
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: Spanish
Number of pages: xxxiii, 136
Weight: 214g
Height: 141mm
Width: 214mm
Spine width: 15mm