Requiem for a lightning bolt / Manuel Scorza ; translated by Anna-Marie Aldaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scorza, Manuel.

Contributor:

Aldaz, Anna-Marie, 1944-

Series:

Wor(l)ds of change ; vol. 49.

Wor(l)ds of change ; vol. 49

Standardized Title:

Tumba del relámpago. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

History.

Peru--History--1919-1968--Fiction.

Peru.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2000]

Contents:

1. The Origin of the Cataclysms That Threatened to Split the World 1

2. Genaro Ledesma Returns to Pasco As Snow Falls on His Dreams 4

3. About How Pajuelo Turned Into Hawk and Became the Universal Heir 12

4. A Truthful Account Concerning the Origin of the Birdmen 15

5. About the Visit That Pajuelo, the Hawk, Received While Reading in La Union's Main Square 20

6. Some of the Reasons Why Dark Clouds Troubled Genaro Ledesma's Heart 24

7. Remigio Villena, Who Never Fled From Anyone, Escapes From Ticlacayan Square 29

8. A Verifiable Account Concerning the Bombon Dam 32

9. About the Cursed Hour in Which I, Doroteo Silvestre, Son of Eudocio Silvestre, Grandson of Magno Silvestre, Met a Stranger 34

10. Genaro Ledesma Begins to Understand That In Some Cases Words Are Superfluous 37

11. Concerning the Afflictions of Father Chasan 40

12. Rage Begins to Choke Genaro Ledesma 43

13. Doroteo Silvestre Discovers That His Illness Has Only One Remedy 48

14. Exaltacion Travesano Tells Genaro Ledesma That He Expects to Die Without Having Seen Justice Carried Out 52

15. Father Chasan's Second Affliction 56

16. Genaro Ledesma Discovers That the Civil Code Can Also Be Used to Serve Justice 59

17. Saturnino, the Sexton, Concludes That Vidal Salas Is Anything But a Roman Catholic Christian 64

18. The Misadventures That Befell Doroteo Silvestre As He Searched for an Ointment to Cure His Ailment 67

19. Remigio Villena Informs Ledesma About How and When He Discovered Sugar 71

20. Father Chasan's Third Affliction 74

21. How the Misfortune Befell Me of Meeting Maco Albornoz 76

22. Father Chasan's Fourth Affliction 79

23. The Consequences of a Crisis 82

24. Of the Fear That Befell Remigio Villena As He Climbed Up the Stairs 84

25. About the True Nature of the Dance To Be Danced with the Albornozes 89

26. Policarpo Cabello Tells Ledesma That a Peasant Should Establish His Throne in the Governor's Palace 93

27. The Harpist of Lima Converses With Santa Maca in Yarusyacan's Main Square 99

28. About How the Bougainvillea Sprouted From Usco's Ravine 102

29. Genaro Ledesma Is Awakened by Knocks on the Door 105

30. The Seminarian Decides to Listen to the Voice of Jesus Christ Rather Than That of the Father Superior 110

31. What Rosaura Canales, Undeservedly Known As Cotbreaker, Confesses to Father Chasan 115

32. About the Provisions That, According to Lara, All Troops Require Before Combat 119

33. Don Elias Tacunan Appears When Least Expected 123

34. Visitacion Maximiliano Proves That the Promised Land Can Be Reached in a Raft 125

35. The Communal Movement of Peru Warns About the Serious Problems Created by The Large Landowners in Central Peru 130

36. How the Villagers of Tusi Began the Siege of the Haughty Hacienda Jarria 133

37. The Communal Movement of Peru Refutes the Statements Made by the Cerro de Pasco Coproration Concerning Its Large Land Holdings 142

38. The Splendor and Fall of the Tower of the Future 147

39. The Communal Movement of Peru Denounces the Imprisonment of its Leaders in Cerro de Pasco and the Preparations for a Massacre in the Communities of Yanahuanca and Yarsuyacan 154

40. At Daybreak They Sighted Jarria, Still Asleep in the Mist 157

41. Exaltacion Travesano Keeps His Word 161

42. Wherein Certain Memories of Midendorff Are Evoked 165

43. The Reason Why Exaltacion Travesano Shared His Bottle of Rum with a Commander of the Assault Guard 167

44. A Certain Scorza Bites Off More Than He Can Chew 170

45. Ledesma, Lara, and the Seminarian Inform the Miners About the Latest Events 173

46. Corzo, the Departmental Governor, Looks at the Posts in Carrion Square 175

47. Which Shows a Firebrand Disguised As an Ice Cream Vendor 178

48. Why Departmental Governors, Even Acting Ones, Should Reside in Lima and Not in the United States 182

49. Adelaydo Vazquez Ends Up All Alone 188

50. Luis Tells Ricardo That the Objective Conditions Do Not Coincide With the Subjective Ones 193

51. Which Will Show That the Seminarian Was Whitish and Had Brown Hair 195

52. Ledesma Does Not Believe in "An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth," Nor Does He Turn the Other Cheek 199

53. Visitacion Maximiliano Thinks About How Slowly Human Beings Grow 201

54. Epitaph 204.

ISBN:

0820450154

OCLC:

43520912