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Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller, Bless Me, Ultima... Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world...and will nurture the birth of his soul.
- Sales Rank: #1596492 in Books
- Published on: 2004-08-01
- Released on: 2004-08-01
- Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 10
- Dimensions: 6.08" h x 1.56" w x 5.26" l,
- Running time: 675 minutes
- Binding: Audio CD
From Library Journal
Besides winning the Premio Quinto Sol national Chicano literary award, this novel of a young boy in New Mexico in the 1940s has sold more than 300,000 copies in paperback since its 1973 debut. Here, however, the book gets the hardcover treatment, with a few illustrations added for color. LJ's reviewer asserted that "the novel has warmth and feeling" (LJ 2/1/73) and a place in all fiction collections, especially those serving Chicano populations.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Rudolfo Anaya is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He was one of the first winners of the Premio Quinto Sol National Chicano literary award. Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction for his novel Alburquerque , he is best-loved for his classic bestseller Bless Me, Ultima . His other works include Zia Summer, Rio Grande Fall, Jalamanta, Tortuga, Heart of Aztlan , and The Anaya Reader . He has also written numerous short stories, essays, and children's books, including The Farolitos of Christmas and Maya's Children .
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Rudolfo Is A Shaman, In His Own Way, Who Can Bring The Reader's Vision Into Focus With His Own Vision.
By Chief Thunder-Thud, of the Ojito Tribe
Rudolpho Is a modern Shaman who brings the reader's mind, imagination, and vision to a point congruent with his own. This is the mythic magic of the writer; it is a form of sharing dreams at the core of living---Imagination. Rudolfo is a curandera of words, story, and plot.
As an author, I am compelled to say this book seems touched by the gods---by the ancient concept of actual Inspiration of a Muse---it is that good. I am teary-eyed from the truth of its impact. Rudolfo's character Antonio is momentous, iconic, and informed by invisible forces that run this universe. I am certain Rudolfo brought his own mastery of writing to this work---his own huge talent---but Rudolfo was chosen to write this book by some cosmic reservoir of limitless power.
I call him Rudolfo, because I am almost as young as he is, and I think he only needs one name, like Glalileo, Michaelangel, Leonardo, or Elvis...he is that good.
EL Jefe.
Every word of "Bless Me, Ultima" seems to glow and resonate on its own; images open and close seamlessly as on some grand, sun-lighted stage; there is not one single word I did not savor; there is not one single image I did not ponder. I found myself re-reading entire segments just to re-experience them. I believe this book to be the most perfect novel ever written.
Each character seems to possess the power of a mythic archetype. Each character is juxtaposed in conflict to another or others. Each character stands for something but wants the opposite of what others want. Sea-blood vs moon-blood; Catholocism vs pagan gods; priestly ministrations vs the seeming magic of the curandera. Brujas---witches---vs the benevolent power of La Grande.
We sail upon Rudolfo's sea of subdued conflict and turmoil, that floods across mythically sinking plains of the psyche---all under control of the questing shaman of words, Señor Rudolfo. It is a symphony of orchestrated discovery. Why are we here? What should we do with our time here? When we leave here, where will we arrive? What is the best way to become---to ultimately accomplish Ourselves.
The work moves forward as mysteriously, effortlessly, and grandly as Antonio's river, bearing gods, demons, and vast Presence. There is not one wasted adjective, or metaphor in "Bless Me, Ultima." The story and language are freed, bit by bit from the stone, lovingly, by our inspired, master craftsman, Señor Rudolfo. It is like looking at an exquisite Roman, cage-glass vase. One can only marvel and wonder, "how was it ever accomplished?" It is wondrous.
Long ago, I tried hard to like Hemingway, but I never really found in him ALL of what others obviously do. Most of it yes, but not all. But I never liked the Beatles either.
I think Rudolfo is really the writer everyone said Hemingway was. I place Señor Rudolfo Anaya on a level with Conrad, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Castenada, Hemmingway, Eliot, Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Keats, and all the other other all-time word-masters. He is producer, director, and star of this epic. Read this book---wait, no....
Experience "Bless Me, Ultima," for yourself.
***** Now...if I could only Learn herein from Rudolfo and Bless Me, Ultima, I might finally become a writer.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Timeless Classic of Chicano Literature
By G. Miller
This is a book to read, reread, ponder and wonder. It captures beautifully the growing up of a young Chicano boy and the tug of war that occurs in me between the teaching of the Catholic Church and the folk wisdom of a native shaman. It is an old book, dealing with another age and perhaps now out of date in our modern world. Yet its issues of faith and custom, depicted in very human characters and their very human dilemmas still ring spot on true. Some may find the blending of narrative with magic and dreams unwelcome. I found them moving and illuminating. This book spoke so deeply to me, once I finished the last page I returned to the first page and started reading it again. This is a "keeper" for sure.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
there is a sweet wistfulness surrounding the people and places in this book
By Amazon Customer
there is a sweet wistfulness surrounding the people and places in this book. This was fascinating and enjoyable. However, the action does not seem to grow out of the simple, trusting though flawed characters or the barren landscape depicted but to be contrived to hammer home a point: There IS magic in the world, SEE?, I didn't finish the book; when I got to the magic goldfishes I felt like I was in a long-outgrown children's book.
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