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Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among
four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As
they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and
unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in
the opposing currents that flow between security and personal
freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work,
provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender
roles.
This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La
casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first
time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin
America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan Garcia
Ponce helped Mexican arts and letters break out of the ossified
styles and themes of the post-Revolutionary "Mexican School" with
works that explore the conflict between individual desire and the
demands of family and work. Written at a turning point in his
career, The House on the Beach foreshadows his embrace of the
erotic encounter as a means of undermining rigid, socially
constructed personal identity. It supports feminist views and
probes deeply into the contradictions, backwardness, and progress
of modern Mexican society.
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