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The Magic Lantern: "Having a Ball" and "Christmas Eve"
Author(s): Jose Tomas De Cuellar (Author), Margaret Carson (Contributor), Margo Glantz (Contributor)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date: 16 Nov. 2000
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195115023
- ISBN-13: 9780195115024
Book Description
These two novellas are written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-19th century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary manners were first published. The stories are a sensitive reflection of the effects of modernization brought by an authoritarian regime.
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About the Author
Margaret Carson has translated the work of several Spanish writers and won the 1994 Endowment Fund award from the American Literary Translators Association.Margo Glantz is Professor of Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and is former Director of The Fine Arts Institute of Mexico. She is a well-known literary critic, the award-winning author of several novels, and the first woman to be inducted into the Mexican Academy of Letters.
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