The House on the Beach: A Novel (Texas Pan American Series)

Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender roles.This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan García Ponce helped Mexican arts and letters break out of the ossified styles and themes of the post-Revolutionary "Mexican School" with works that explore the conflict between individual desire and the demands of family and work. Written at a turning point in his career, The House on the Beach foreshadows his embrace of the erotic encounter as a means of undermining rigid, socially constructed personal identity. It supports feminist views and probes deeply into the contradictions, backwardness, and progress of modern Mexican society.

Literature & Fiction

García Ponce, Juan

Contemporary

University of Texas Press

Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender roles.
This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan García Ponce helped Mexican arts and letters break out of the ossified styles and themes of the post-Revolutionary "Mexican School" with works that explore the conflict between individual desire and the demands of family and work. Written at a turning point in his career, The House on the Beach foreshadows his embrace of the erotic encounter as a means of undermining rigid, socially constructed personal identity. It supports feminist views and probes deeply into the contradictions, backwardness, and progress of modern Mexican society.

Genre Fiction

Entry into matter: Modern literature and reality (Illinois language and culture series)

Applied Literature Press

La errancia sin fin: Musil, Borges, Klossowski (Spanish Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

Editorial Anagrama

LA Cabana

Lectorum Pubns

Apariciones: antología de ensayos (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

La narrativa de García Ponce (1932-2003) formula mundos eróticos que ponen a prueba las teorías morales. Sin prejuicio alguno, el escritor abre puertas imaginarias y nos introduce a espacios donde no existe la culpa porque las personas son sólo el objeto de múltiples y desproporcionados placeres. Inmaculada habita ese mundo.

Inmaculada: o los placeres de la inocencia (Spanish Edition)

García Ponce (1932-2003) proyecta, hasta las últimas consecuencias, sus ideas sobre la sexualidad como alternativa vital en Pasado presente. En una ciudad decadente y promiscua, se genera toda una serie de dramas pequeños y grandes en donde los personajes se autodestruyen mediante el desenfreno, la incomunicación y la distancia.

Pasado presente (Spanish Edition)

Encuentros (Letras Mexicanas, 106) (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

El gato es sigiloso, profano; es el espectador privilegiado de los encuentros er ticos de una pareja; se convertir en un part cipe insustituible de las expediciones er ticas de los personajes. Esta novela se construye en escenarios urbanos y atm sferas con olor a piel y cigarro. Una buena elecci n Para quienes deseen acercarse a la obra de Garc a Ponce (1932-2003) y Para quienes disfrutan del erotismo y sus vicisitudes.

El gato (Letras Mexicanas, 13) (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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