Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi's experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel--the first to be published in Latin America--after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death--and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain.
Though never before published in its entirety in English, The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence. Raw descriptions of colonial street life, candid portraits of race and ethnicity, and barely camouflaged attacks on colonial authority fill this comic masterpiece of world literature--the Don Quixote of Latin America.

The Mangy Parrot (Hackett Classics)

Literature & Fiction

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

Literary

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

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)

Genre Fiction

The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His Children

Esta es la mejor novela de Fernandez de Lizardi. Una satira elaborada desde la autobiografia de un catrin, prototipo social y paradoja indefinible. El lector es llevado por un personaje y sus andanzas hacia le centro de una sociedad de apariencias, donde los vicios son disimulados y ejercidos por todos en un simulacro social.

Don Catrin de la Fachenda (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Satire

Editorial Lectorum

El Periquillo Sarniento

Classics

EDITORIAL PORRUA

Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi goza de la fama de ser el primer escritor que ensayo con exito la novela en la America española. El periquillo sarmiento es su obra maestra, en la que refleja de manera abundante las costumbres y el pensamiento de su epoca. La forma de este libro es autobiografica. Un picaro relata las peripecias de su vida, como escolar y como jugador. A la vez, retrata con maestria realista a un sinnumero de personajes sus padres, sus maestros y los amos a quienes sirve. Sus aventuras se desarrollan principalmente en la capital de la Nueva España y sus inmediaciones. Vagabundeando por la ciudad, que conocia tan bien, el picaro hace frecuente mencion de sus calles, plazas, conventos, iglesias, carceles y mesones, dandoles siempre sus nombres propios, todos autenticos y faciles de localizar en los mapas de esos tiempos.

El periquillo sarniento (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Porrúa.

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