Sor Juana or the Breath of Heaven: The Essential Story from the Epic, Hunger's Brides The Essential Story from the Epic Hunger's Brides
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
Juli 2006
Verlag
Da Capo PrSeitenzahl
1376
Maße (L/B/H)
23.3/17.7/4.6 cm
Gewicht
1107 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7867-1778-1
Juana was a child prodigy whose beauty and wit provoked a sensation at the vice-regal court in Mexico City. At nineteen, though still a royal favorite, she chose to enter a convent. In the twenty years that followed, Juana created plays, theological arguments, and graceful, often sensuous poetry -- insisting upon a life of the mind for women, while jousting with the enforcers of the Inquisition. Then, at forty, Juana signed a vow of silence in her own blood, five years before succumbing to plague.
This book plumbs the mystery of why such a gifted writer silenced herself. In his remarkable debut, Anderson unfolds three intimate journeys: a great poet's withdrawal from the world; a man's forced march to self-knowledge; and a mystic's pilgrimage into modern Mexico, where the bones of the past continually intrude into a present built on the ruins of the vanquished.
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