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Book Synopsis

From reviews of the Spanish edition:

'...among the best works that Mexican fiction has produced.'

—Héctor Gally, Sábado

'With homely features, but with a body so shapely and exciting that it sets men (priests included) aflame throughout the novel, with an incandescent voluptuousness and delightful amorality (surely explosive in the conservative Mexican society of her time and place) ...Otilia Rauda could be the protagonist of a Greek tragedy or of a soap opera made of improbable happenings and as many turns of fate as there are chapters used to tell the story of her life.'

—Jorge Ruffinelli, Punto y Aparte

Winner of Mexico''s prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia prize in 1986, Otilia Rauda is here translated into English for the first time as Otilia''s Body. Widely considered Sergio Galindo''s best work, the novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman''s obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the

Table of Contents

  • About the Setting of the Novel
  • First Part: The Encounters
  • Second Part: Rubén Lazcano
  • Third Part: Melquiades

Otilias Body

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    A Paperback / softback by Sergio Galindo, Carolyn Brushwood, John S. Brushwood

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      Book details

      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 31 October 1994
      ISBN-13 9780292727700
      978-0292727700
      ISBN-10 0292727704

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From reviews of the Spanish edition:

      '...among the best works that Mexican fiction has produced.'

      —Héctor Gally, Sábado

      'With homely features, but with a body so shapely and exciting that it sets men (priests included) aflame throughout the novel, with an incandescent voluptuousness and delightful amorality (surely explosive in the conservative Mexican society of her time and place) ...Otilia Rauda could be the protagonist of a Greek tragedy or of a soap opera made of improbable happenings and as many turns of fate as there are chapters used to tell the story of her life.'

      —Jorge Ruffinelli, Punto y Aparte

      Winner of Mexico''s prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia prize in 1986, Otilia Rauda is here translated into English for the first time as Otilia''s Body. Widely considered Sergio Galindo''s best work, the novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman''s obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the

      Table of Contents

      • About the Setting of the Novel
      • First Part: The Encounters
      • Second Part: Rubén Lazcano
      • Third Part: Melquiades

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