Now available for the first time as a trade paperback, Quetzalcoatl
is the early version of D. H. Lawrence's great Mexican novel, The
Plumed Serpent. Louis Martz says in his introduction that it
presents, in terms as different as crayon is from oil, a closely
related, but different work when compared with The Plumed Serpent.
Most important in this earlier version is the treatment of its
heroine, Kate Burns. Unlike the heroine of The Plumed Serpent, she
is strong-minded and independent, the widow of a failed Irish
patriot. In the end, she refuses to simply join the Mexican
revolutionary movement -- based on a revival of the Aztec gods --
and passively submit to the manhood of its leader, Don Ramon. As
Martz explains, Quetzalcoatl provides a much more powerful
questioning of this mass-movement by filtering the account of its
rise through the central consciousness of the heroine, Kate Burns,
a woman of strong individuality who has lost faith in political
revolutions. With Quetzalcoatl, we have an arguably stronger novel,
more traditional, but like The Plumed Serpent, one that is wondrous
for its vivid evocation of the Mexican culture and mythology, its
full intensity of feeling, and psychological insight. This edition
of Quetzalcoatl includes an illuminating introduction and textual
commentary by Sterling Professor of English at Yale, Louis Martz.
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