Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le
Clezio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully
evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le
Clezio's haunting book takes us into the dream that was the
religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions
anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of
the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of
gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion
and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in
Mexico, Le Clezio also shows us those of the "barbarians" of the
north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec
frontier.
Finally, Le Clezio's book is a dream of the present, a
meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations--in their language,
in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own
destruction--moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud
and motivates Le Clezio in this book. His own deep identification
with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of
time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds
fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the
dream around.
"We are lucky to have in Le Clezio a writer of great quality who
brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of
the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of
ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they
are mysterious.""--Le Figaro"
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