Luis Zapata
Forfatter af Adonis Garcia
Om forfatteren
Zapata's professional training is in medieval French literature, but he has made a major contribution to Mexican literature during the past decade in writing openly gay fiction. Adonis Garcia (1979), still his most famous novel, is the picaresque chronicle of a solidly bourgeois but rebellious vis mere Mexican youth, who leaves his family and, in order to survive, turns to street prostitution in Mexico City. However, once in the city, the confluence of wealthy, jaded Mexicans, creative and intellectual Bohemians, and adventurous tourists transforms Garcia. No longer a male prostitute who does not consider himself a homosexual, he achieves the beginnings of a gay identity---a process that is central in Zapata's subsequent writings. Zapata brings to his narratives an excellent sense of the transformations taking place in Mexico (whose capital is often viewed as paradigmatically postmodern). He explores the intersection of popular culture and outmoded bourgeois ideologies and has an accurate ear for the capital's many expressive cadences, including the speech of the millions of newly immigrant provincials. Because of both his commitment to countercultural discourses and his multi-leveled urban settings, Zapata is a key figure in contemporary Mexican fiction and, along with Puig, one of Latin America's most prominent gay writers. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Luis Zapata
Paisaje con amigos: Un viaje al occidente de Mexico (Cuaderno de viaje) (Spanish Edition) (1995) 1 eksemplar
Miscelánea (selección) 1 eksemplar
Primer catecismo en la santa fe de Bogotá 1 eksemplar
Con R de Reality [R Stands for Reality] 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
My Deep Dark Pain Is Love: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction (1983) — Bidragyder — 67 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1951
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Mexico
- Fødested
- Chilpancingo
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Para aquellos coleccionistas de cuentos, que buscan el significado de sus sueños húmedos en textos agnósticos y pecadores; para aquellos amantes que perdieron la fe entre las luces de la ciudad, al detenerse las horas en la carátula de sus corazones; para aquellos que trabajan en un elevador, mirando el mundo en sentido vertical, se escribió Ese amor que hasta ayer nos quemaba. Convendría echarle un vistazo, o dos, a estos cuentos de cinco estrellas que Luis Zapata fue preparando a lo largo de nueve años, con el rigor de un artesano afortunado y talentoso… (mere)
A hustler in Mexico City struggles with poverty, persecution and abandonment, and still manages to stay optimistic. A novel that reads like a long conversation told in the vernacular of redemption. Adonis compels us to look at someone who against all odds is insolently happy and forces us to ask ourselves how we can be so stupid as to be unhappy.
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 22
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 145
- Popularitet
- #142,479
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 4
- ISBN
- 32
- Sprog
- 1
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