"The years with Laura Diaz" sweep the Mexican History of XX century. Laura Diaz is the thread. With this free woman, educated and intelligent, the author draws a gigantic mural of modern Mexico.
A country of settlers (Spain, France, Germany) and refugees (Spain under Franco, Jews during the war in Europe, victims of McCarthyism in the United States)
A country or revolutionary governments succeed in the blood.
A country battered by crime, violence, corruption and poverty.
A country whose heart is Mexico; Aztec city, colonial city and town also moderne.Mais, a lost city of the great human misery.
Mexico City that is growing by crushing his past in its path.
A highly political work. A cold and uncompromising analysis of fascist regimes (Hitler's Germany, Franco Spain, Stalinist Russia)
A major tribute to Hispanic artists (Neruda, Lorca, Quevedo, ...)
A book that exudes love for his country (Gourmet, Fauna and Flora, Architecture, ...)
The family saga seems "anecdotal" as the sequence of historical events is important.
But the character of Laura Diaz remains attachant.Une free and independent woman who will own the maxim of his grandmother Cosima Kelsen: "Let nothing move my child."
A voluminous book (620 pages) and dense.
Mexico continues to build the foundations of a peaceful democracy in the blood.
A major work.
