Short stories of Fray Angelcio Chavez
by Chavez, Angelico
Published by : University New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM) Physical details: 139 p ISBN:9780826309495. Year: 1987| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The angel's new wings --
The penitente thief --
Hunchback Madonna --
A Romeo and Juliet story in early New Mexico --
The bell that sang again --
The fiddler and the angelito --
The black ewe --
The ardent commandant --
Wake for Don Corsino --
The lean years --
A desert idyll --
The Tesuque pony express --
My ancestor, Don Pedro --
The colonel and the santo.
Fray Angélico Chávez (1910-1996) was one of New Mexico's leading men of letters, and this anthology is the first collection of his fiction to be published since 1957. These stories, dismissed in the past as quaint and charming, actually represent the same serious cultural and socio-historical concerns that marked Chávez's more recent nonfiction. Although largely social allegories, they are also humorous evocations of life in New Mexico from colonial days to more recent times. Mystery and miracle, the wisdom of age and the impetuosity of youth, and the conflict of cultures that has marked life in New Mexico from the beginnings are the themes of these stories, which read, in many cases, like Hispano cuentos or Biblical parables.
This book will delight readers new to Fray Angélico's fiction as well as those who are rediscovering him after many years.
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