DAYS OF OBLIGATION: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Rodriguez, Richard - 1992
by Rodriguez, Richard
DAYS OF OBLIGATION: An Argument with My Mexican Father
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Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, Richard Rodriguez Viking Adult, 1992. first edition full number line. Hardcover. Good/good. see pictures,first edition full number line. dust jacket is intact small amount where are dust jacket, dark gray boards cloth energy gold titling on spline spine is intact there appears to be no of being,, small amount where to dust jacket itself. See pictures..When I was fourteen and my father was fifty, we toyed with the argument that had once torn Europe, South from North, Catholic from Protestant, as we polished the blue DeSoto. "Life is harder than you think, boy." "You're thinking of Mexico Papa." "You'll see."A fragment of dialogue can summarize the "argument" of Richard Rodriguez's new book, though the book contains five centuries, beginning with the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes; ending in 1992, in San Francisco - an American Asian city, during the years of plague.In Days of Obligation, Mexico and the United States are portrayed as moral rivals upon the landscape of Mr. Rodriguez's beloved California. Mexico wears the mask of tragedy, the United States wears the mask of comedy. By the end of the book the reader recognizes an historical irony: The United States is becoming a culture of tragedy; Mexico, meanwhile, revels in youthful optimism. Mexico and the United States have exchanged roles.These ferocious essays cannot be dismissed as regional. They are not - or only insofar as Montaigne's essays can be said to be regional. The play of idea and incident, the scope of these essays - both public and private - make up a kind of spiritual autobiography with no antecedent in American letters.One must summon the names of writers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in order to describe the literary and moral fabric of the book at hand. Imagine Jonathan Swift sitting in a nightclub in Mexico City. Or imagine Thomas Carlyle writing about homosexuality and domestic architecture.Richard Rodriguez takes his title from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar. "Days of obligation" are feast days of such importance to the life of the church that the faithful are required to attend them physically by going to mass. Just so does memo...Used books are the "green" way to read and reduce your carbon footprintkeeping them out of landfills sooner rather than later ...LAX Vespa...
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- Keywords Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father Penguin Book: Biography/Autobiography Author Richard Rodriguez Edition reprint Publisher Viking, 1992 Original from University of Texas Digitized Aug 21, 2007 ISBN 0670813966, 9780670813964 Len
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