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The Mangy Parrot

By: Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi

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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 The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death--and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain.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.

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1603840702

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El Periquillo Sarniento

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El Periquillo Sarniento

By: Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi

Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi goza de la fama de ser el primer escritor que ensayo con exito la novela en la America espanola. El periquillo serniento es su obra maestra, el la que refleja de manera abundante las costumbres y el pensamiento de su epoca. La forma de este libro es autobiografica. Un picaro relata las peripecias de su vida, como escolar y como jugador. A la vez, retrata con maestria realista a un sinnumero de personajes--sus padres, sus maestros y los amos a quienes sirve--. Sus aventuras se desarrollan principalmente en la capital de la Nueva Espana y sus inmediaciones. Vagabundeando por la ciudad,m que conocia tan bien, el picaro hace frecuente mencion de sus calles, plazas, conventos, iglesias, carceles y mesones, dandoles siempre sus nombres propios, todos autenticos y faciles de localizar en los mapas de esos tiempos.

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9700773299

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The Mangy Parrot

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The Mangy Parrot, Abridged

By: Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi

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The Mangy Parrot, Abridged

By: Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi

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.

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The Mangy Parrot, Abridged

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