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| #232040 in Books | Ingramcontent | 2016-06-21 | 2016-06-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.80 x5.00l,.81 | File type: PDF | 392 pages | A Visit to Don Otavio A Mexican Journey||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Condescending sponger's year in Mexico just after WWII|By Stephen O. Murray|I am puzzled by the euphoric high regard people like William Maxwell, V. S. Pritchett, and Bruce Chatwin had for Sybille Bedford book about a year in Mexico, mostly spent sponging off a member of the largely disposed elite, called Don Otavio, on the shores of Lake Chapala. If the book is a novel, as Cha||"Bedford treats many aspects of Mexican culture and daily life with humor and grace: the slow passing of time, religious and civil fiestas…siestas and gunfights, bejeweled women an their sinful secrets, the music…and political gossip.” &mda
In the mid-1940s, Sybille Bedford set off from Grand Central Station for Mexico, accompanied by her friend E., a hamper of food and drink (Virginia ham, cherries, watercress, a flute of bread, Portuguese rosé), books, a writing board, and paper. Her resulting travelogue captures the violent beauty of the country she visited.
Bedford doesn’t so much describe Mexico as take the reader there—in second-class motor buses over thousands of...
You easily download any file type for your device.A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey (New York Review Books Classics) | Sybille Bedford. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
