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    Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clézio’s haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in Mexico, Le Clézio also shows us those of the “barbarians” of the north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec frontier.Finally, Le Clézio’s book is a dream of the present, a meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations—in their language, in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own destruction—moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud and motivates Le Clézio in this book. His own deep identification with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the dream around.“We are lucky to have in Le Clézio a writer of great quality who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious.”—Le Figaro

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    Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clézio’s haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in Mexico, Le Clézio also shows us those of the “barbarians” of the north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec frontier.Finally, Le Clézio’s book is a dream of the present, a meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations—in their language, in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own destruction—moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud and motivates Le Clézio in this book. His own deep identification with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the dream around.“We are lucky to have in Le Clézio a writer of great quality who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious.”—Le Figaro

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    Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clézio’s haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in Mexico, Le Clézio also shows us those of the “barbarians” of the north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec frontier.Finally, Le Clézio’s book is a dream of the present, a meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations—in their language, in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own destruction—moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud and motivates Le Clézio in this book. His own deep identification with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the dream around.“We are lucky to have in Le Clézio a writer of great quality who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious.”—Le Figaro

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    The Mexican Dream, or The Interrupted Thought

    of Amerindian Civilizations by Jean-Marie G. Le


    Clzio

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    Original Title: The Mexican Dream, or The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations
    ISBN: 0226110028
    ISBN13: 9780226110028
    Autor: Jean-Marie G. Le Clzio/Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation)
    Rating: 4.3 of 5 stars (1929) counts
    Original Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
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    Published: December 1st 1993 / by University Of Chicago Press / (first published September 5th
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    Language: English
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    Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clzio here conjures the consciousness
    of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clzios
    haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own
    apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of the
    conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of gold drawing Europe into the Mexican
    dream. Against the religion and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in
    Mexico, Le Clzio also shows us those of the barbarians of the north, the nomadic Indians
    beyond the pale of the Aztec frontier.

    Finally, Le Clzios book is a dream of the present, a meditation on what in Amerindian


    civilizationsin their language, in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own
    destructionmoved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud and motivates Le Clzio in this
    book. His own deep identification with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of
    time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds fitting expression in this
    extraordinary book, which brings the dream around.

    We are lucky to have in Le Clzio a writer of great quality who brings his particular sensibility and
    talent here to remind us of the very nature of the rituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient
    Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious.Le Figaro
    About Author:

    Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio, better known as J.M.G. Le Clzio (born 13 April 1940) is a Franco-
    Mauritian novelist. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his
    novel Le Procs-Verbal (The Interrogation) and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    Judith
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    The book pretends to ask "what if", to explore what our world might look like if the Aztec Empire
    (and other peoples) had survived in some form or had had more of an influence on our present
    philosophy and society. Well, it's only the last two pages that deal with that question. The rest of
    the book explains the culture and religion of the Aztecs and of other native peoples in immense
    detail. Some of it was new to me, but the majority was not, so that I was impatiently awaiting any
    insights rela
    The book pretends to ask "what if", to explore what our world might look like if the Aztec Empire
    (and other peoples) had survived in some form or had had more of an influence on our present
    philosophy and society. Well, it's only the last two pages that deal with that question. The rest of
    the book explains the culture and religion of the Aztecs and of other native peoples in immense
    detail. Some of it was new to me, but the majority was not, so that I was impatiently awaiting any
    insights relating it to the modern world, and I had to wait a long time for what amounted to a few
    barely elaborated ideas.
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