By Sergio Galindo,Carolyn Brushwood,John Brushwood
ISBN-10: 0292727690
ISBN-13: 9780292727694
ISBN-10: 0292727704
ISBN-13: 9780292727700
From experiences of the Spanish edition:
"...among the simplest works that Mexican fiction has produced."
—Héctor Gally, Sábado
"With homely beneficial properties, yet with a physique so shapely and fascinating that it units males (priests integrated) aflame through the novel, with an incandescent voluptuousness and pleasant amorality (surely explosive within the conservative Mexican society of her time and position) ...Otilia Rauda may be the protagonist of a Greek tragedy or of a cleaning soap opera made up of inconceivable happenings and as many turns of destiny as there are chapters used to inform the tale of her life."
—Jorge Ruffinelli, Punto y Aparte
Winner of Mexico's prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia prize in 1986, Otilia Rauda is right here translated into English for the 1st time as Otilia's Body. greatly thought of Sergio Galindo's most sensible paintings, the unconventional dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, performed opposed to the backdrop of Mexican heritage from 1910 to 1940. a superb instance of "intimist" fiction, Otilia's Body is noteworthy for its penetratingly defined characters who go beyond time and position to develop into universally recognizable.
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