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Dear Diego (Paperback)
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Dear Diego (Paperback)
Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
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When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting though
the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered
a series of Parisian letters from Angelina Beloff. Long before
Diego had become famous for his Mexican murals or applauded for his
renowned wife, Frida Kahlo, Angelina had been his wife for over ten
years while the young Rivera had lived as a poor and obscure artist
in the city of light. Wolfe was impressed by the letters Beloff
wrote to her husband after his definitive departure for Mexico and
included a chapter on them and the Russian painter in his biography
of the muralist. Several years later, Mexican author Elena
Poniatowska read Wolfe's biography and, deeply impressed by
Angelina Beloff's letters, decided to rewrite them. The result is
Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, a masterful blending of fact and
fiction that creates a novella out of twelve imagined letters that
Quiela (Angelina) writes to Diego over a nine-month period. Within
them, we are able to view the artist's world of post-war Paris
where Quiela struggles forward without her husband while falling
back onto fond memories of their time spent together as well as
suffering the torment of darker moments she also lived with the
painter. It offers the reader a beautiful portrait of life and art
in an iconic city towards the beginning of the 20th century. This
brief work exhibits some of the fundamental traits encountered in
Poniatowska's narratives: a focus on strong women, an interest in
the real and the marginal and a love for Mexico. While translations
of this narrative do exist in various languages, Nathanial
Gardner's bilingual edition is a new initiative that introduces the
reader to the work of one of Mexico's most celebrated female
writers and assists the student and enthusiast understand this
author's place and importance in Latin American letters. Elena
Poniatowska has been awarded the prestigious Premio Cervantes
(Cervantes Prize), which will be awarded on the 23rd April 2014,
the anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes. http:
//www.globaltimes.cn/content/826258.shtml#.U05RelfLKTV
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