'68
El otoño mexicano de la masacre de Tlatelolco
$49.05
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
‘68 es una agarradora narraci n en primera persona hecha por uno de los mas distinguidos y prolificos escritores mexicanos de todos los tiempos, acerca de la masacre estudiantil de Tlatelolco llevada a cabo en Ciudad de Mexico en 1968.El prop sito de Paco Ignacio Taibo II es el de recuperar, a traves de su memoria y de las notas que el mismo tom durante aquellos dias, la verdad de los hechos ocurridos durante el verano del ‘68 hasta el terrible 2 de octubre. Por lo menos 200 estudiantes fueron matados a tiros y muchisimos mas fueron los heridos y los detenidos. Luego, los cuerpos de los miertos fueron sacados con camiones, los adoquines fueron lavados y el atroz crimen “desapareci “. Taibo II, con una narraci n que recuerda Tienanmen y Belgrado, describe la gradual formaci n del movimiento que, desde algo fragmentado y falto de direcci n lleg a convertirse en un grupo revolucionario organizado. No se le escapan al autor los detalles horribles: el bengala lanzado para dar la orden de disparar contra la muchedumbre estudiantil; los cuerpos de estudiantes tirados desde los aviones. Hoy dia el recuento oficial de los eventos sigue negando la matanza. A traves de una prosa provocadora, anecd tica y analitica, Taibo II reivindica “un fantasma mexicano mas, de los muchos fantasmas irredentos e insomnes que pueblan nuestras tierras”.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583226087 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583226087 |
| Author: | Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Donald Nicholson-Smith |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 140mm x 209mm |
Critics Review
Now available for the first time in English, Mexican author and essayist Taibo’s beautifully realized memoir of the Oct. 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City documents “The Movement” of students that, at one point, was half a million strong. Taibo begins more than a decade before the massacre, when the movement was inchoate and the “invisible enemy” was purely an intellectual concern. He evokes relationships, passions and arguments lovingly. (Relevant section titles include “Of Women and Mattresses,” “And Sometimes We Believe in the Informative Value of Tremors Running Through the Atmosphere” and “In Which the Virtues of the National Anthem Are Rediscovered.”) The Cuban revolution and the Vietnamese resistance galvanized democratic idealists across Mexico, and The Movement turned to action: widespread propaganda dispersion, silent demonstrations, flash rallies, community organizing and the 123-day strikes in high schools and universities across the country. Then, as the impact of the student revolt in Paris in May 1968 reverberated throughout the world and governments became increasingly reactive, 200 protesting students were murdered in Tlatelolco Square by government military police, and hundreds more were arrested and jailed. In the days and weeks following, the corpses of the slain students disappeared, the facts were contorted by government-controlled media, and reality turned to myth. Today, over 35 years later, much of the truth remains uncovered, but Taibo’s memoir goes a long way toward setting the record straight.—Publishers Weekly
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Born in Gij n, Spain,PACO IGNACIO TAIBO IIhas lived in Mexico City since 1958, when his family fled Spanish fascism. A distinguished historian and essayist. Taibo is also renowned worldwide for his detective novels. His numerous literary honors include two Dashiell Hammett prizes, a Planeta prize for best historical novel, and the Bancarella Prize for his biography of Che Guevara. Taibo lives in Mexico.
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