All Mexican writer, I assume, somewhere in his life as a reader and a hunter of stories, likes to write "his novel about the conquest. No is for more. Conquest is an epic territory, perhaps, our last epic territory, because the independence and other historical paraphernalia that we are saddled with the historical and national government can always be faulted or lent to other interests.
And if there is an interesting character throughout this period, that is the Malinche, or Malinalli. What makes Laura Esquivel with this historical character? Something very simple but at the same time, fabulous: rebuilt, giving a new voice and above all, give a typical sensitivity. Do not be fooled the reader into thinking that Malinche find a wicked, treacherous and fraught of these historical impositions that can fit into a character as well as controversial as Malinalli (Malinche was really short, as Malinche means "The Lord of Malinalli.)
Esquivel In this novel gives an insight Malinalli on culture, with doubts, fears, with concern, nostalgic and ultimately becomes a kind of baton change between pre-Hispanic deities and new deity. "I am the new world," she says Malinalli his mother, who had left to his own small, selling to a merchant, but later the same Malinalli realdiad eventually gives in, only change this world of form, but will still the same world.
Malinche is a tribute to the indigenous and nostalgia alive, especially in Cuauhtemoc's last order to his people: "Let the fathers and mothers do not forget to tell your children what has so far been under Anahuac our lord and close together, our Lord Ometeotl-Ometecuhtli, and as a result of costumbrs and lessons that our elders and our parents instilled so hard that they instilled in us. not forget to tell your children what one day shall be the Anahuac for us all. After being long night the sixth sun will rise to be a blazing sun. "
So, hopefully the sixth sun. At least the words of which was this Anahuac come in Malinche.
Publisher: Suma de Letras
Country: Mexico
p. 244
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