The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by José María Arguedas and María Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca dialect, are now presented for the first time in English in the beautiful translations of Ruth Stephan, author of the recent prize-winning novel, The Flight. Also included in this rich collection are nine folk tales collected by Father Jorge A. Lira, translated into Spanish by Sr. Arguedas, and into English by Kate and Angel Flores.

The Singing Mountaineers: Songs and Tales of the Quechua People

Politics & Social Sciences

ARGUEDAS, JOSÉ MARÍA

Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

José María Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. Ernesto, the narrator of Deep Rivers, is a child with origins in two worlds. The son of a wandering country lawyer, he is brought up by Indian servants until he enters a Catholic boarding school at age 14. In this urban Spanish environment he is a misfit and a loner. The conflict of the Indian and the Spanish cultures is acted out within him as it was in the life of Arguedas. For the boy Ernesto, salvation is his world of dreams and memories. While Arguedas' poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary. This makes translation into other languages extremely difficult, and Frances Horning Barraclough has done a masterful job, winning the 1978 Translation Center Award from Columbia University for her efforts.

Deep Rivers

Literature & Fiction

Univ of Texas Pr

Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress the traditional Indian-style bullfight reflects their attitude toward social change more generally. Included with the text of the novel is Arguedas' anthropological essay "Puquio: A Culture in the Process of Change," written eighteen years after Yawar Fiesta. The article emphasizes the social changes in the village that resulted from the road construction described in the novel. Jos‚ Mar¡a Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. While Arguedas' poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary, making translation into other languages extremely difficult. Frances Horning Barraclough has met the challenge and produced an excellent work that remains faithful to the author's use of language to reflect the lived experience of Peruvian Indians.

Yawar Fiesta (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Yawar Fiesta

Quartet Books, London, Melbourne, New York (1985)

The last novel by Peruvian writer Jose Maria Arguedas, set in the booming port city of Chimbote, is an expression of the human costs of rapid modernization. Tragically, the malaise of the society is reflected in the literal self-destruction of the author, a process chronicled in four diaries woven into the novel itself. Arguedas lost his struggle with suicide as he neared the end of the novel and shot himself to death, closing his own life but deliberately leaving his novel open. Fittingly, the forces of destruction in this rich and fascinating work are wondrously transformed by language and motion, by faith and redemption. As with the other Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature, The Fox From Up Above And the Fox From Down Below contains critical essays providing background and analyses of the text for classroom use.

The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Decía Gonzalo Torrente Malvido, que conoció a fondo el lumpen, que “El Sexto es la mejor novela sobre la cárcel en lengua española”, pero sobre esto y como escribiera Mario Vargas Llosa, “la prisión es solo un medio, el decorado que usa Arguedas para representar un drama que lo hostigó toda su vida y que, sin duda, contribuyó a forjar la crisis que culminó con su suicidio: el de la marginalidad”. En efecto, sobre el légamo de sordidez de la prisión, por donde campan degenerados de toda laya, y donde, por si fuera poco, se disputan enconadas batallas políticas entre apristas y comunistas por un país que se halla a extramuros, despunta, como único recurso para cualquier existencia posible, un lirismo y una nostalgia que dotan al relato de una vivacidad y de una genuinidad, que no sólo lo convierten en una de las novelas cimeras de la prosa hispana del s. XX, sino una experiencia indeleble para cuantos la han leído.

El sexto (Spanish Edition)

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Genre Fiction

Waveland Pr Inc.

This Spanish text is useful for teaching Peruvian, Latin American literature and cultural history at university level. It could also be read at upper sixth-form level as the plot is uncomplicated and the emotional atmosphere is immediately graspable. It tells the story of a young man's experience of growing up in highland Peru in a deeply divided society and of his struggle to overcome conflicts of language and culture. He manages to elaborate an alternative vision of Peru, drawing above all on native Indian sensibility and traditions. In the process, the novel draws on key elements of Peruvian history and culture and above all on popular memory. The introduction outlines the main features of the plot and offers a clear interpretation of the major episodes, relating them to key features of modern Peru and explains the chief elements of native culture that figure in the text, such as the use of myth.

Arguedas: Los Rios Profundos

History & Criticism

Bristol Classical Press

Yawar fiesta : La Fête du sang

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