David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social commentary that established Lizardi's comic masterpiece as the Don Quixote of Latin America.

The Mangy Parrot, Abridged (Hackett Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Fernández de Lizardi, José Joaquín

Genre Fiction

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Pedro Sarmiento, el singular personaje al que llaman Periquillo, nos cuenta en primera persona las diversas aventuras en las que va pasando de amo en amo y de un oficio a otro. En esta novela, primera del género escrita en México y Latinoamérica, publicada en 1816, su autor, Fernández de Lizardi llama la atención sobre los males y lacras de la sociedad mexicana en su época. La intención es educar al pueblo, señalarle sus errores para así reformar y mejorar la sociedad.

El Periquillo Sarniento (tomo 1) (Spanish Edition)

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El Periquillo Sarniento (tomo 4) (Spanish Edition)

Don Catrín de la Fachenda es una crítica del sistema colonial vigente en la época en la que fue escrita (1820). México, es a la sazón una sociedad inestable debido a los enfrentamientos entre realistas e insurgentes que desembocarán en la independencia de la República y nacimiento de la nación mexicana. La descripción de las clases sociales es capital en la obra puesto que el objetivo de Lizardi es educar a la sociedad del XIX con avisos sobre comportamientos ejemplares o perniciosos.

Don Catrín de la Fachenda (Spanish Edition)

Don Catrin de La Fachenda (Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

European Masterpieces

Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and caste and plays with other aspects of the self considered more extrinsic, such as appearance and social disguise. While not directly mentioning the Mexican wars of independence, Don Catrín offers a vivid representation of the political and social frictions that burst into violence around 1810 and gave birth to the independent countries of Latin America.

Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrín de la Fachenda: An MLA Translation (MLA Texts and Translations)

United States

Modern Language Association of America

Completed in 1819 and approved by the censorship in 1820, "Don Catrín de la Fachenda" was the last novel written by José J. Fernández de Lizardi, and the only one that remained unpublished until 1832, five years after the death of its author. At first glance, the novel does not seem -at least morally- to doubt: bad characters die, "catrinismo" is sensationally defeated and the truth left standing is monopolized by the clergy, military, and nobility. Perhaps dazzled by the canonization process that Fernández de Lizardi underwent at the hands of liberal historiography towards the end of the 19th century, critics tend to read "Don Catrín de la Fachenda" as the representative of a colonial order that an emergent Mexican nation must destroy in order to advance, free from those elements that halt progress, toward the promising period of liberal modernization. However, one can also trace in the protagonist the signs of the anxiety Lizardi experienced due to the development of a revolution that sooner rather than later would impose what he perceives as a materialist and bourgeois social code. This is probably why all political expectations in the novel rely on those redeemer-characters that form part of a colonial apparatus that Lizardi seems committed to modernize at all costs: clergymen that quote Rousseau, military officials who declare their loyalty to the king and the law, creole-aristocrats that do not speak of a nobility based on blood but of a nobility of virtues, and lettered men who fervently trust in the power of religion, education and work. Displaying what could be classified as a monarchical-constitutional reformism, Lizardi expects such privileged agents to carry out, without violence, the political and social changes needed in New Spain at the beginning of the 19th Century. Far from being in line with a view of Lizardi as revolutionary and liberal, the results of the clash of discourses that occurs within "Don Catrín de la Fachenda" seems to confirm the author's nostalgia for a colonial order in which eternal truth, honor and authority prevail as bastions of the church, the army and the nobility. In the current edition, María Eugenia Mudrovcic undertakes the analysis of Lizardi's last novel as well as provides notes that facilitate an in depth understanding of a text that though entertaining, is complex and contradictory.

Contemporary

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El Periquillo Sarniento (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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Book by Fernandez De Lizardi, Jose Joaquin

Don Catrín de la Fachenda; Noches tristes y día alegre (Letras Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)

Don Catrin de La Fachenda y Noches Tristes y Dia Alegre (Edicion y prologo de Jefferson Rea Spell, Coleccion de Escritores Mexicanos)

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