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News from the Empire
- Title
- News from the Empire / Fernando del Paso ; translated by Alfonso González & Stella T. Clark.
- Author
- Paso, Fernando del, 1935-2018.
- Publication
- Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.
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- Description
- 704 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten from this strange era in Mexico's early nationhood. Using Emperor Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, as a starting point, Fernando Del Paso both considers what Mexico is and the country's place in the larger narrative of world history. The book spans the palaces of Europe and the villages of Mexico, yet despite its broad focus News is a book rich in characters and details, a work that opens up this era of Mexican history to readers without specialized knowledge. Maximilian and Carlota are the focus of the book, and even if they are not explicitly on every page, they are always in the background somewhere, providing the humanizing contradictions that fill it. Del Paso draws a complicated picture of two naïve people placed in a situation they could not manage and a country they did not understand. This innocence is especially inexplicable in the case of Maximilian, who, as brother of Austria's Emperor Franz Josef, should have known something about ruling but is completely unable to govern.
- Uniform Title
- Noticias del Imperio. English
- Alternative Title
- Noticias del Imperio.
- Subject
- Note
- First English translation from the original Spanish.
- Originally published in Spanish as Noticias del Imperio. México, D.F. : Diana literaria, 1987.
- Contents
- 1. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 2. May you find yourself between Napoleons, 1861-62 -- 3. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 4. A matter for women, 1862-63 -- 5. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 6. A pretty boy this arcgduke turned out to be, 1863 -- 7. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 8. Must I leave my golden crib forever? 1863-64 -- 9. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 10. Massimiliano: Non te fidare, 1864-65 -- 11. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 12. We'll call him Austrian 1865 -- 13. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 14. An emperor without an empire, 1865-66 -- 15. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 16. Bye-Bye Mama Carlota, 1866 -- 17. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 18. Queretaro, 1866-67 -- 19. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 20. Las Campanas Hill, 1867 -- 21. Bouchoute Castle, 1927 -- 22. History will be our judge, 1872-1927 -- 23. Bouchoute Castle, 1927.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-3276
- ISBN
- 9781564785336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1564785335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008048684
- OCLC
- 271105515
- Author
- Paso, Fernando del, 1935-2018.
- Title
- News from the Empire / Fernando del Paso ; translated by Alfonso González & Stella T. Clark.
- Imprint
- Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.
- Added Author
- González, Alfonso, 1938-Clark, Stella T.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-3276