9780729304535

Like Water for Chocolate - Critical Guide

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780729304535

Paperback|9780729304535


Overview

Laura Esquivel's debut novel Como agua para chocolate took the literary World by storm with its unique yet familiar story of love and longing on the Mexican border during the perilous times of the Mexican Revolution. This author's narrative, seeped in magic and peppered with Mexico's culinary customs, was quickly taken to the silver screen where Tita and Pedro's forbidden relationship would captivate audiences not only in its native country, but around the globe - cementing Equivel's name within the ever-growing canon of Latin American women writers. Nathanial Gardner introduces the reader to both the novel and the film version of Como agua para chocolate and examines not only key themes, such as rebellion and tradition, but also its style and main characters. This narrative's acclaimed use of food and other gastronomic elements are taken into consideration as well as the significance of magic realism to this text. As this novel/film combination follow each other in an unusually close manner, the first part analyses many of the components the two share while the second part of this study emphasizes the cinematic mechanisms that are unique to this particular presentation of Esquivel's most widely-studied creation to date.

ISBN-13

9780729304535

ISBN-10

0729304531

Weight

0.30 Pounds

Dimensions

5.00 x 0.40 x 7.40 In

List Price

$21.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

113 pages

Publisher

Foyles

Published On

2009-12-18



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