Le Rêve mexicain
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Essais », (August 22) 1988.
1 vol. (145 x 220 mm) of 248 p., [2] and 2 f. In wrappers, uncut.
First edition.
One of 41 copies on vélin pur fil de Rives (no. 43).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Arlette et Maurice Alteirac avec toute ma considération, M. le Clezio.”
One of 41 copies on vélin pur fil de Rives (no. 43).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Arlette et Maurice Alteirac avec toute ma considération, M. le Clezio.”
Le Clézio’s “Mexican dream” asks what this civilization might have become had it survived the European invasion: an essay on the brutal disappearance of the Indian civilizations of Latin America in the sixteenth century, brought about by the Spanish conquistadors. Cortés, la Malinche, Motecuzoma II and Cuauhtémoc are the principal figures in this conquest and in the annihilation of a Mexico examined here by a writer who himself lived there for several years.
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