1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBTWSOB00001606

Autore

Palumbo, Nino

Titolo

Allegro, ma non troppo / Nino Palumbo ; presentazione di Aldo Vallone ; note e commento di Francesco de Nicola ; disegni e copertina di Luciano Ricci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bari : Adda, 1976

Descrizione fisica

184 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Testimoni del Sud ; 6

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795908803321

Autore

Cifuentes-Goodbody Nicholas

Titolo

The man who wrote Pancho Villa : Martin Luis Guzman and the politics of life writing / / Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nashville, Tennessee : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8265-0369-1

0-8265-2055-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 pages)

Classificazione

HIS025000LIT004100

Disciplina

863

Soggetti

Authors, Mexican - 20th century

Historians - Mexico

Biography - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Sommario/riassunto

"The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa explores the way in which one author tried to shape and control his literary legacy through biographical and autobiographical writing"--Provided by publisher.

"Martin Luis Guzman was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa, we see the famous author as he really was: a careful craftsman of his own image and legacy. His five-volume biography of Villa propelled him to the heights of Mexican cultural life, and thus began his true life's work. Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody shapes this study of Guzman through the lens of "life writing" and uncovers a tireless effort by Guzman to shape his public image.  The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa places Guzman's work in a biographical context, shedding light on the immediate motivations behind his writing in a given moment and the subsequent ways in which he rewrote or repackaged the material. Despite his efforts to establish a definitive reading of his life and literature, Guzman was unable to control that interpretation as audiences became less tolerant of the glaring omissions in his self-portrait"--