Vision de Anahuac (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alfonso Reyes
- First Published: 1917
- Type of Work: Essay
- Genres: Short fiction, Essays
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Flowers, Native Americans or American Indians, Gods or goddesses, Mexico or Mexicans, Spain or Spanish people, Wildlife, Natural resources, Conquistadors
Critical Evaluation:
For more than fifty years, in book after book, Alfonso Reyes has demonstrated the excellence and universality of Hispano-American letters. Poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, theoretician, meta-physicist, and a scholar in the best humanist tradition, he has ranged for his themes and materials from Athens in the classic age to the Indian pueblos and the history of his native Mexico. Under these circumstances it may seem somewhat arbitrary to let a single essay, even one commonly found in separate publication, represent a writer of such...
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