D. José Mariano Beristain de Souza

by José Toribio Medina

1897

Estudio bio-biblografico de D. José Mariano Beristain de Suza realizado por José Toribio Medina.

The Mangy Parrot

by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, David L. Frye

2004 · Hackett Publishing

Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquin 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 The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death -- and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain.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.

Rusticatio Mexicana

by Rafael, Landívar, S. J, José, Mata Gavidia

2019 · Editorial Cara Parens

La Monumenta Landivariana se denomina un vasto proyecto de investigación, concebido por el ilustre humanista José Mata Gavidia. La obra está dividida en Serie Mayor: sobre estudios académicos y en Serie Menor: con obras de carácter divulgativo y didáctico, las dos series basadas en la Rusticatio Mexicana de Rafael Landívar, S. J. Monumenta Landivariana, Serie Mayor, inaugura su colección en el 2019 con el volumen I, el cual comprende la edición crítica y bilingüe de la Rusticatio Mexicana, con la fijación del texto, traducción al castellano, comentarios, anotaciones y estudios inéditos de José Mata Gavidia. La edición del texto latino estuvo al cuidado de Faustino Chamorro González. Esta obra ha sido posible gracias a la generosa colaboración de la familia Mata Estrada, que ha depositado su confianza en la universidad para divulgar este patrimonio de investigación.