![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paz starts out fairly tamely by exploring the inferiority complex Mexicans develop when living among their Northern neighbours, and the pachuco counterculture that was a reaction to that, then he moves on to the macho culture with its insistence on suppressing emotions ("the mask"), the key role of the fiesta as an outlet, and the significance of the Mexican national swearword, the universal verb chingar.īut the real substance of the collection seems to be in the set of essays where he takes us succinctly through the cultural history of Mexico from Cortés and Malinche to his own generation, via the major signposts of independence in the 1820s, reform in 1857, and the revolution of 1910. By far the best-known work by the Mexican Nobelist, a collection of essays that sets out to discover and explain Mexican identity. ![]()
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