El Periquillo Sarniento. Tomo IV (Spanish Edition)
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(Don Catrín de la Fachenda es una crítica del sistema colo...)
Don Catrín de la Fachenda es una crítica del sistema colonial vigente en la época en la que fue escrita (1820). México, es a la sazón una sociedad inestable debido a los enfrentamientos entre realistas e insurgentes que desembocarán en la independencia de la República y nacimiento de la nación mexicana. La descripción de las clases sociales es capital en la obra puesto que el objetivo de Lizardi es educar a la sociedad del XIX con avisos sobre comportamientos ejemplares o perniciosos.
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David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The ...)
David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social commentary that established Lizardi's comic masterpiece as the Don Quixote of Latin America.
El Periquillo Sarniento (tomo 1) (Volume 1) (Spanish Edition)
(Pedro Sarmiento, el singular personaje al que llaman Peri...)
Pedro Sarmiento, el singular personaje al que llaman Periquillo, nos cuenta en primera persona las diversas aventuras en las que va pasando de amo en amo y de un oficio a otro. En esta novela, primera del género escrita en México y Latinoamérica, publicada en 1816, su autor, Fernández de Lizardi llama la atención sobre los males y lacras de la sociedad mexicana en su época. La intención es educar al pueblo, señalarle sus errores para así reformar y mejorar la sociedad.
La Quijotita y Su Prima (Coleccion Sepan Cuantos # 71) (Spanish Edition)
(Si alguna persona se suscribiere o comprare esta obrita c...)
Si alguna persona se suscribiere o comprare esta obrita creyendo hallar en ella invencion singular, erudicion escogida, metodo exacto, estilo brillante y todas aquellas bellezas que encantan y sorprenden en muchas obras del dia, se llevara un buen chasco sin duda alguna; pues solo encontrara una invencion comun, una erudicion no rara, un metodo en partes incorrecto, y un estilo sencillo y familiar. Tal es el todo de la presente obrita y esta ingenua confesion, si no basta a defenderla de los colmillos del Zoilo, ni de la ferula del Aristarco, bastara a lo menos para probar que su autor no aspira a pasar la plaza de sabio sorprendiendo a los incautos. Habiendo visto la favorable acogida que hallo el Periquillo en el publico ilustrado de este reino, y habiendo tambien observado que se han desterrado de algunas casas, estas o aquellas preocupaciones, mediante su lectura, me determine a escribir esta obrita, considerando que acaso podria ser de provecho a no pocas personas, y como al escribir trato de conciliar mi interes particular con la utilidad comun, de ahi es que muchas veces atropello a sabiendas con las reglas del arte cuando me ocurre alguna idea que me parece conveniente ponerla de este o del otro modo. No por esto se me esconde que se pueden dictar los mismos documentos cumpliendo con el rigor del arte, y tal vez con mas gracia y mejor estilo; pero ¿que tengo con saber que se puede hacer una cosa con perfeccion, si yo carezco de la ilustracion y genio propio para hacerla? Por tanto, ofrezco al benigno publico esta obrita asi como he podido escribirla, deseando que sea util y esperando que los sabios disimularan los defectos que no hubiere sabido corregir o evitar mi escasa penetracion. Tambien debo advertir, que aunque esta dedicada al bello sexo, no sera enteramente inutil al otro, por las intimas relaciones que tienen ambos entre si.
The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His Children
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Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Sp...)
Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi's experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel--the first to be published in Latin America--after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death--and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain.
Though never before published in its entirety in English, The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence. Raw descriptions of colonial street life, candid portraits of race and ethnicity, and barely camouflaged attacks on colonial authority fill this comic masterpiece of world literature--the Don Quixote of Latin America.
El Periquillo Sarniento. Tomo II (Spanish Edition)
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Grito de la libertad en el pueblo de Dolores, El (Spanish Edition)
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("La Quijotita y su prima" (1818) The Quijotita and her C...)
"La Quijotita y su prima" (1818) The Quijotita and her Cousin is Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi's (1776-1827) second novel. Written two years after his best known novel "Periquillo sarniento" (1816), regarded as the official initiator of the novel genre in Spanish America, in "La Quijotita..." Fernández de Lizardi extends his view on society to encompass the female condition. In tune with his liberal stance the author states with clarity the active role women should play within the new Mexican society, and highlights the importance of educating them along modern principles. Composed mainly of dialogues the novel quickly caught the readers public's attention, thus becoming very popular in its times among both female and male readers. It constitutes a perfect example of a didactic literature, intended to expose desirable social behavior models while entertaining. Today this amusing novel can regain its educational value by transporting the modern reader to the times of the newly born Mexican bourgeoisie, to show how the ideology of modernity and progress was conveyed through the education of women. The present critical edition by prof. Graciela Michelotti takes into account previous ones (starting with the 1831 edition) and incorporates new aclaratory footnotes aimed to help the modern, international reader.
(Esta es la mejor novela de Fernandez de Lizardi. Una sati...)
Esta es la mejor novela de Fernandez de Lizardi. Una satira elaborada desde la autobiografia de un catrin, prototipo social y paradoja indefinible. El lector es llevado por un personaje y sus andanzas hacia le centro de una sociedad de apariencias, donde los vicios son disimulados y ejercidos por todos en un simulacro social.
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi was a Mexican writer and political journalist, best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (1816), translated as The Mangy Parrot in English, reputed to be the first novel written in Latin America.
Background
He was born on November 15, 1776 in Mexico City when it was still the capital of the colonial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. His father was a physician employed in and around Mexico City, who for a time supplemented the family income by writing. Likewise, his mother came from a family of modest but "decent" means; her own father had been a bookseller in the nearby city of Puebla.
Education
Nevertheless, Fernández's parents managed to send their son to the University of Mexico, where he matriculated in the College of San Ildefonso in 1793.
Five years later he withdrew without receiving his bachelor's degree, possibly because the death of his father deprived him of financial support.
Career
Without inheritance or profession, Fernández de Lizardi was forced to live by his wits, which, as it transpired, meant political journalism. It was a natural occupation for him: he had an agile and restless mind which could not help but be stimulated by the political revolutions in Spain and Mexico. It was also an occupation which involved considerable risks since political revolution fired political passions.
Lizardi's hazards were enhanced by his incapacity to identify for any length of time with any particular party or movement.
Since neither contending royalists nor insurgents nor the factions that succeeded them met his standards, he found himself in perpetual opposition and the victim of almost constant suspicion and persecution.
In it, he attacked the vices of colonial government so vigorously that the viceroy suspended the decree and Lizardi was jailed for some 7 months.
He continued to publish his paper until absolutism and rigorous censorship was restored in 1814, but his experience in prison and the surveillance of the Inquisition, which he had offended, induced him to turn to fiction as a less risky medium for his opinions. Between 1816 and 1820 Lizardi wrote several novels, of which The Itching Parrot (El perequillo Sarmiento) became the most famous.
Appearing serially, it ran into trouble with the censors, and although Lizardi managed to finish it, it was not published in full until 1830, 3 years after his death. In 1820 the restoration of constitutional government and freedom of the press in Spain prompted Lizardi to establish a new periodical, El conductor eléctrica (The Lightning Conductor), in which he attacked the enemies of the constitutional system; but conservative forces were still powerful in Mexico, and after 24 numbers he could no longer find a printer.
The following year insurgent and royalist forces under the leadership of Colonel Agustin de Iturbide proclaimed independence, and Lizardi was summoned to operate their press. After the victory of the liberating army, however, his criticisms of Iturbide and the Church led to his excommunication and temporary imprisonment. Lizardi had one more chance at respectability and security.
In 1825, after the overthrow of Iturbide's short-lived empire, Mexico's republican government made him editor of its official gazette, but his incorrigible propensity for criticism soon caused him to fall into disfavor with its leaders. Two years later he died in poverty and obscurity. The Itching Parrot Lizardi is remembered as the father of Mexican journalism, but his most lasting claim to fame rests on The Itching Parrot, a novel of the Spanish picaresque genre. Its anti-hero, Perequillo, is a rogue, a scoundrel, and something of a buffoon whose life consists of an unrelieved series of escapades and misfortunes in the teeming streets, tenements, taverns, jails, and hospitals of Mexico City.
In his journalism, Lizardi turned from the light social criticism of his earlier broadsheets to direct commentary on the political problems of the day, attacking the autocratic tendencies of the viceregal government and supporting the liberal aspirations represented by the Cortes in Spain.
Views
José was a representative of the Enlightenment who believed that man is basically good and that society corrupts him. He was for the ideals of liberty, justice, and humanity and against slavery, oppression, intolerance, venality, and hypocrisy.
Perequillo never learns from his misadventures and invariably emerges unrepentant. The novel also has a pervasive didactic quality conveyed by digressive moral preachments and reflections on the vices of rich and poor. Its appeal to readers of successive generations, however, lies not in its narrative style or in its social and moral content but in the clarity and faithfulness with which it evokes the sights and sounds and smells of the popular culture of Mexico City at the end of the viceregal period.
In the ninth issue of El Pensador Mexicano (December 1812), Lizardi attacked viceroy Francisco Javier Venegas directly, resulting in his arrest.
Interests
Philosophers & Thinkers
His articles show the influence of Enlightenment ideas derived from clandestine readings of forbidden books by Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, a hazardous route to take in those hopeful but uncertain times.