The house on the beach / a novel by Juan García Ponce ; translated into English by Margarita Vargas and Juan Bruce-Novoa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García Ponce, Juan.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Texas Pan American series

The Texas Pan American series

Standardized Title:

Casa en la playa. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 201 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994.

Summary:

Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love friendship, jealously and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender roles. This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan Garcia Ponce helped Mexican arts and letters break out of the ossified styles and themes of the post-Revolutionary "Mexican School" with works that explore the conflict between individual desire and the demands of family and work. Written at a turning point in his career, The House on the Beach foreshadows his embrace of the erotic encounter as a means of undermining rigid, socially constructed personal identity. It supports feminist views and probes deeply into the contradictions, backwardness, and progress of modern Mexican society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0292727631

029272764X

OCLC:

28587024