Research Catalog

Title

Elena Poniatowska : an intimate biography / Michael K. Schuessler ; foreword by Carlos Fuentes.

Author

Schuessler, Michael Karl

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Fuentes, Carlos

Description

xviii, 269 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Descended from the last king of Poland, born in France, educated at a British grade school in Mexico and a Catholic high school in the United States, Helene Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor - otherwise known as Elena - is a passionate, socially conscious writer who is widely known in Mexico and who deserves to be better known everywhere else." "Michael Schuessler, who befriended Poniatowska more than fifteen years ago, is a knowledgeable guide to her engrossing life and equally engaging work. As befits her, his portrait is itself a literary collage, a "living kaleidoscope" that is constantly shifting to include a multiplicity of voices - those of fellow writers, literary critics, her nanny, her mother, and the writer herself - easily accessible to general readers and essential to scholars. Available in English for the first time, this insightful book includes 40 photographs and an annotated bibliography of Poniatowska's works - those that have already been translated into English and these awaiting translation."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Elenísima. English

Alternative Title

Elenísima.

Subject

• Poniatowska, Elena
• 1900-1999
• 1950-2000
• Authors, Mexican > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : "I am moved by desire" -- To live a fairy tale -- University of the street -- "Elenita" : the young writer -- The adobe princess -- Unknown Mexico -- 1968 : the year of Tlatelolco -- Disaster's widow -- From earth to heaven -- Elena : an international treasure (a conclusion of sorts).

ISBN

• 9780816525010 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0816525013 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006030298

OCLC

• 71348686
• SCSB-10681910

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library