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Emilio Carballido (1925-2008) was one of the most innovative and
accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding
creators in the new Latin American theater. By his mid-forties he
had already produced an impressive body of works in two very
different veins. On the one hand, he mastered the techniques of the
"well-made play." On the other, he developed a richly rewarding
vein of fantasy, sometimes poetic, sometimes comic, sometimes
macabre-and sometimes all three. The plays in this volume are in
the latter vein, ranging from surrealist farce in "The Intermediate
Zone" to the grotesqueries of "The Time and the Place," from
tragicomedy in "Theseus" to the dreamlike permutations of "The
Golden Thread." But even at his most fantastic, Carballido never
loses his remarkable gift for characterization: his peevish
Minotaur, his raffish Nahual (were-jaguar) are wholly believable
monsters.
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The Norther (Paperback)
Emilio Carballido; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
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Recognized in Mexico as one of the country's most important
contemporary dramatists, Emilio Carballido has only recently become
known in other countries through his plays and short stories. This
translation introduces Carballido as a novelist. In The Norther
what makes and breaks human relationships is his central interest
as he traces the course of a relationship between a widow and a
young man. The characters are created as their emotional and
psychological outlines are drawn, and it is in the characterization
that the hand of the dramatist is revealed. But it is Carballido's
novelistic talent that has made The Norther the object of widely
divergent interpretations. The critical conflict aroused by this
novel is discussed in an Introduction by the translator, Margaret
Sayers Peden.
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