A Visit to Don Otavio

Name: A Visit to Don Otavio
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 9780907871873

Sybille Bedford

31/07/2002
Eland Publishing Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de A Visit to Don Otavio par Sybille Bedford

Résumé

Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel - through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping against her face - she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our imagination. He is, she says, "one of the kindest men I ever met". She stays in his crumbling ancestral mansion, living a life of provincial ease and observing with glee the intense life of a Mexican neighbourhood.