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The Mexican Dream (Record no. 9653)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2010291996
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780226110035
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 268787793
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number F1230
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 972.018
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name J. M. G. Le Clžio
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Mexican Dream
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University Of Chicago Press
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 240 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clézio’s haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in Mexico, Le Clézio also shows us those of the “barbarians” of the north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec frontier. Finally, Le Clézio’s book is a dream of the present, a meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations—in their language, in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own destruction—moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud and motivates Le Clézio in this book. His own deep identification with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the dream around.“We are lucky to have in Le Clézio a writer of great quality who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious.”—Le Figaro    
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Philosophy
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History - Mexico
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        Lake Chapala Society Lake Chapala Society 07/17/2024   MEX 972 LeCLE 51799 07/17/2024 1 07/17/2024 Book

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