Bøger af Jose Agustin

"Alain's parents have a home in Tepoztlâan, outside of Mexico City, and he invites a group of friends to spend the long Mexican Independence weekend there. They can't wait to hang out, play video games and climb up the Toltec pyramid that's in the town! Once there, the city kids meet some of the locals, including Pancho, who's about their age, and his mother, a curandera who does cleansings. The young people are thrilled to be able to watch the indigenous ceremony that involves copal incense, candles and rubbing an egg along the body. BUt more exciting is Pancho's invitation to explore a large cave he has recently discovered on Mt. Tepozteco. The next day they find the cave entrance without too much trouble, but soon things get weird in the huge, dark cavern as they encounter an assortment of odd characters. The friends realize they've accidentally entered Tepozteco's Belly, where the ancient Aztec gods live. Mother figure and goddess of sustenance, Tonantzin, and Xiutecutli, lord of fire, want to help the kids escape, but others, including the fearsome earth mother goddess Coatlicue, want to subject the intruders to a bloody sacrifice. Introducing Mexico's pre-Hispanic culture and religion, this adventure novel blending fantasy and myth races to an exciting conclusion!"--Back cover.

"Un editor yuppie y su socio visitan Acapulco con el pretexto de escribir un reportaje sobre los lugares oscuros del puerto y buscando pasa un buen rato. Pero sus deseos se pierden en la frialdad inexcusable del destino cuando un huracâan arrasa el puerto y los obliga a modificar sus planes. La tormenta desnuda lo que permanecâia escondido: mientras uno reniega de la situaciâon, el otro se hunde en la vida cotidiana de Acapulco. Narrada con la soltura extraordinaria y el humor exquisito que caracterizan a Josâe Agustâin, esta es una alegorâia extraordinaria del Mâexico de finales del siglo XX cuya trama tiene su eje central en el viaje, tanto real como simbâolico."----

«Una audaz radiografía sobre los movimientos contraculturales en México en voz de uno de sus mayores exponentes. 190 páginas llenas de salvajes historias de rebeldía, ingenuidad, incorrección, desmadre, lucidez, arte, literatura, drogas, punks, darketos, jipitecas, cholos, chavos banda, sexo y rockanroll. Pero, sobre todo, [este libro] reivindica la dignidad de no estar de acuerdo con "el poder" y la vigencia de esa entelequia que se llama “contracultura”» —Carlos Martínez Rentería, fragmento del prólogo   La contracultura en México se desplaza entre varios géneros, cubriendo los grandes movimientos y las manifestaciones contraculturales más importantes que ha tenido nuestro país, tales como los pachucos, los existencialistas, las pandillas juveniles o el rockanroll. En esta obra alucinante, el autor también da cuenta de las expresiones juveniles que han incidido en la música, la literatura, el teatro, el cine, la gráfica, la televisión y las publicaciones.   El lector hallará excelentes herramientas para analizar la realidad, así como datos indispensables para leer y comprender los tiempos y las manifestaciones que han enfrentado a la cultura predominante.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION“A bold x-ray about counterculture movements in Mexico, in the voice of one of its greatest figures. One hundred and ninety pages filled with wild stories of rebellion, ingenuity, impropriety, rampage, lucidity, art, literature, drugs, punks, darks, Mexican hippies, cholos, gangs, sex, and rock ‘n’ roll. But above all, [this book] vindicates the dignity of disagreeing with ‘power’ and the validity of that entelechy called ‘counterculture.’” —Carlos Martínez Rentería, excerpt from the prologue Mexican counterculture traverses several genres, covering the great movements and the most important counterculture manifestations our country has seen, such as pachucos, existentialists, teen gangs, and rock ‘n’ roll. In this hallucinating work, the author also gives account of the youthful expressions that influenced music, literature, theater, movies, graphic art, television, and publications.   The reader will find outstanding tools to analyze reality, as well as indispensable data to read and understand the times and the different manifestations that confronted mainstream culture.

En este primer volumen de la "Tragicomedia mexicana", que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos polâiticos, los modos del "tapadismo" y del fraude electoral, las leyes no escritas del sistema, los laberintos obreros y agrarios, el fortalecimiento de los empresarios, la industrializaciâon, el desarrollo estabilizador, la penetraciâon paulatina e invencible de Estados Unidos en casi todos los âambitos del paâis, la eterna carestâia, las protestas populares y la correspondiente represiâon, las estrellas de cine, los espectâaculos y el deporte, el surgimiento y el predominio aplastante de la televisiâon, las grandes celebridades, la vida social, el mambo, el chachachâa y el rocanrol, los rebeldes sin causa, las minifaldas, los jipis, las mafias culturales, la vida intelectual, el movimiento estudiantil y el fin del sueäno del "milagro mexicano".

"Set in Acapulco during the early 1970s, it tells of the never-ending trip undertaken by a tarot reader and an Acapulco drug-dealer, who are engaged in an incredible sadomasochistic relationship, and a quiet and wise homosexual youth, who counteracts the book s vertigo. These characters enter an event-packed whirlwind where drugs, rock n roll, irreverence, and rebellion serve as triggers for a profound personal search."--

"A story of mystery, as provoking and amusing as it is unsettling and enigmatic, where the main character, married to an indigenous shaman from Oaxaca, witnesses a man's death, a man that looks just like him. At the very moment that strange man draws his last breath, the protagonist of this profound, vivid plot decides to switch their identities. He wants to know what his wife and children will do once he is dead. What he doesn't realize is that he will also have to take on the terrible commitments of the man whose identity he took."--Provided by publisher.