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To: tejek who wrote (256382)	10/19/2005 12:03:30 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571685

Re: What the hell do you think I mean? Having the different races makes life a little bit more interesting. As with other races, the white race has made some important contributions to the world. Why should I want them to disappear into a mixed color pool? Ah! If only you had felt the same for Native Americans... whom your forefathers exterminated mercilessly --clue: The Mexican Dream or the Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations by Jean-Marie-Gustave Le Clézio [...] Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: Not one dream but many unfold in J. M. G. Le Clézio's conjuring of the consciousness of Mexico, strange and powerful evocation of the imaginings that made and unmade an ancient culture. "What motivated me," Le Clézio has said, "was a sort of dream about what has disappeared and what could have been." A widely respected French novelist with a long history of interest in pre-Columbian Mexico, Le Clézio imagined how the thought of early Indian civilizations might have evolved if not for the interruption of European conquest. In an unprecedented way, his book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, which in its own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors. Here the dream of the conquistadores rises before us, too, the glimmering idea of gold drawing Europe into the Mexican dream. Against the religion and thought of the Aztecs and the Tarascans and the Europeans in Mexico, Le Clézio also shows us those of the "barbarians" of the north, the nomadic Indians beyond the pale of the Aztec frontier. Finally, Le Clézio's book is a dream of the present, a meditation on what in Amerindian civilizations--in their language, in their way of telling tales, of wanting to survive their own destruction--moved the poet, playwright, and actor Antonin Artaud and motivates Le Clézio in this book. The author's deep identification with pre-Columbian cultures, whose faith told them the wheel of time would bring their gods and their beliefs back to them, finds fitting expression in this extraordinary book, which brings the dream around. "Le Clézio superbly presents the Aztec world view with its dancing, bloody sacrifices, hallucinations, dreams. . . . Heated, hypnotic, bizarre: Mesoamerican history as if composed by an Aztex priest."--Kirkus Reviews "We are lucky to have in Le Clézio a writer of great quality, who brings his particular sensibility and talent here to remind us of the very nature fof the ruituals and myths of the civilizations of ancient Mexico; he provides us with descriptions as precise as they are mysterious."--Le Figaro Book News Annotation: Originally published in French as Le Reve Mexicain ou la Pensée Interrompue (1988, Editions Gallimard). Le Clézio is a widely respected French novelist who has studied pre-Columbian Mexico for many years. In this unusual work he conjures the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs and its encounter with the dream of the conquistadores, imagining how the thought of early Indian civilizations might have evolved if not for the interruption by European conquest. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis: Translator's Note 1. The Dream of the Conquerors 2. The Dream of Origins 3. Mexican Myths 4. Nezahualcoyotl, or the Festival of Words 5. The Barbarian Dream 6. Antonin Artaud, or the Mexican Dream 7. The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations Notes Map of region About the Author J. M. G. Le Clezio was born in Nice in 1940. In 1963 he received the Renaudot Prize for his first novel, Le proces-verbal. He has studied the Indian civilizations of pre-Columbian Mexico since 1971 and has published translations of Mayan sacred texts and an evocation of three sacred villages in the land of the Maya, Trois villes saintes (1980). Two of his novels are soon to be available in English from David Godine. powells.com