Recollections of Things to Come

By Elena Garro, Ruth L. C. Simms (translator), Alberto Beltrán (illustrator)

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This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright,…


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Los recuerdos del porvenir (Recollections of Things to Come) by Elena Garro
I heard once that Elena Garro was the mother of Latin American Magic Realism, and now
that I’ve read her debut novel, I believe it. Published in 1963, Recollections of Things to Come precedes García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (the epitome of Latin American
Magic Realism) by five years. She set the standard for the genre. I love the dreamy, suspended feeling one gets while reading this novel. It is chock full of ethereal characters, uncanny and weird events that happen naturally, and a flowing narrative…

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