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The Villagers is a story of the ruthless exploitation and extermination of an Indian village of Ecuador by its greedy landlord. First published in 1934, it
is here available for the first time in an authorized English translation.
A realistic tale in the best tradition of the novels of social protest of Zola, Dostoevsky, José Eustasio Rivera, and the Mexican novels of the Revolution, The Villagers (Huasipungo) shocked and horrified its readers, and brought its author mingled censure and acclaim, when it
was first published in 1934.
Deeply moving in the dramatic intensity of its relentless evolution and stark human suffering, Icaza’s novel has been translated into eleven foreign languages, including Russian and Chinese, and has gone through numerous editions in Spanish, including a revised and enlarged edition in 1953,
on which this translation is based, but it
has never before been authorized for translation into English. His first novel, but not his first published work, The Villagers is still considered by most critics as Icaza’s best, and it
is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant works in contemporary Latin American literature.
Thirty years after its original publication in Ecuador, The Villagers still carries a powerful message for the contemporary world and an urgent warning. The conditions here portrayed prevail in these areas, even today. The Villagers is an indictment of the latifundista system and a caustic picture of the native worker who, with little expectation from life, finds himself a victim of an antiquated feudal system aided and abetted by a grasping clergy and an indifferent government.
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A searing novel of social protest.......2001-06-10
"The Villagers," a novel by Jorge Icaza of Ecuador, was first published in 1934. It has been translated into English by Bernard Dulsey. I think of "The Villagers" as a sort of Ecuadoran counterpart to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (the classic anti-slavery novel by United States author Harriet Beecher Stowe). Like that earlier novel, Icaza's book is an impassioned expose of racially-charged violence and oppression.
"The Villagers" tells the story of the exploitation of Ecuadoran Indians by whites who are intent on taking economic advantage of the Indians' homeland. Icaza paints a fascinating portrait of the conflicts and twisted connections among three major groups: Indians, whites, and "cholos" (those of mixed blood). The "gringos," or white North Americans, form a sinister fourth group that lurks menacingly behind the scenes of the unfolding drama.
The novel is full of vivid, graphic details--lice infestation, a worm-infected wound, rape, suffering, and death. Icaza mercilessly satirizes the lust and greed of the white landowner, Don Alfonso. Icaza also savagely critiques the complicity of the church (in the form of the hypocritical village priest) in the abuse of the Indians. And the author also exposes the insidious debt bondage that turns nominally "free" people into virtual slaves.
Some of the more villainous characters seem a bit one-dimensional, but in my opinion the many strengths of the book outweigh this flaw. "The Villagers" is a powerful work of social protest that deserves a wide readership.
JORGE ICAZA HAD A DREAM.......1998-12-21
Jorge Icaza had a dream just like Martin Luther King, except his dream was not meant toward the United States, his dream was meant toward his people of Ecuador who, like people in the United States, are prejudiced against people who are of different races, and different economic statuses, etc. Jorge Icaza wrote his first novel The Villagers as the first step (in a series of steps) to make the dream come true. In it he portrays the Indian people of Ecuador as they truly are, as well as the landowners and government leaders, and the ways in which these ruthlessly treat the Indians. Religion plays a big role in this novel. Icaza leaves no prisoners, everyone in Ecuadorean society is criticized, including the mestizoes, persons of both European and American Indian descent. Icaza's 1934 novel is studied in many of the top universities of the United States in classes of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Anthropology. I suggest this book to those who are interested in learning about Latin America and its peoples. I think people will be shocked and appalled. Icaza is by far the most important Indianist novelist Latin America ever brought forth, as well as one of Ecuador's most finest and important writers.
Truths that only the daring and indignant can tell.......1998-12-05
I read this book many years ago and it is the only book that has told of that brutality that is endemic and daily in this beautiful, yet sad country of Ecuador. Ycasa is the real heroe in our historical voyage. He has stuck his neck out and has told a story-amongs many- that reveal the destructive, oppresive, and racist nature of his society. His sense of justice and solidarity with the poor and the indians are as powerful as his indignation of the established oligarchy and it's system.
Icaza, comparable only to Tolstoy........1998-10-12
Vile language, adultery, human suffering, courage, fear, love, guile--Icaza portrays TRUE HUMANITY in his first book The Villagers (Huasipungo),one of this century's greatest novels. As a professor of French and Spanish literature I have had many students ask me who Jorge Icaza was and why there are no other novels by Icaza available for them to read. The answer is that Jorge Icaza is one of the most complex writers in the Spanish language. Translating him is a task that no one wishes to take on because it may take them their whole lives to complete. It is sad because Icaza wrote some of the greatest novels of this century, ie., El Chulla Romero y Flores. As a translator of 4 novels, I myself am terrified of Icaza's prose. Jorge Icaza is the author of 7 novels (he left behind the draft for an 8th novel), 4 collections of short stories, and 7 plays. Bernard M. Dulsey did a great job in the translation. Of course he had help from Icaza himself, something which no translator can now have since Icaza died in 1972. Readers are fortunate to have this novel available in the English. Perhaps the greatest pre-Magic novel of Latin-America.
A sickening society and the author who wrote about it........1998-08-24
I have been obsessed with this book for four years. The Villagers (Huasipungo) presents some of the most passionate, horrific and sad events ever to take place in fiction. In his most famous book Jorge Icaza shows a part of Ecuadorian society that the entire world refused to take notice of or do anything about.
Don Alfonso Pereira belongs to the property-owning class of Ecuador. The book takes us along his journey to his hacienda and introduces us to his Indian and mestizo peons that work and labor for him in exchange for a piece of land where they cultivate there vegetables, raise there animals, and build their huts - a piece of land called a "huasipungo."
The rape of an Indian woman, adulterous threesomes, savage sex... All this shows that Icaza was holding nothing back. When the book first appeared in Latin America in the 1930s readers were enraged. But despite the rage of Ecuadorians the book was quickly translated into more than 20 other languages: Russian, Polish. Italian... etc. Finally it was translated into the English in the 1960s. There are things in this book which no writer in the world would have dared write about in the 1930s or even today.
This book is so influential that a famous, contemporary hard-core band is named after it: Huasipungo. This book is a must read for those that love profound lyricism and brutal truth.
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- cruel depiction of Latin American misery
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cruel depiction of Latin American misery.......2001-07-31
Because of the horrible situation in Latin-American countries during the twentieth century, the majority of the writers could not choose the l'art pour l'art stance. The bulk of the literature at that age was protest literature, released not to last for centuries but to open the eyes of the public of what is going on the countries. The majority of the authors that lasted from this period and became extremely popular all over the world like García Marquez or Vargas Llosa had books that contained original experiments with the form of the novel, but they also unveiled to the world the situation the continent is in. Icaza's Huasipongo maybe is the best example to the protest literature without any major aim to be everlasting. It was written to show how the Indians were exploited by the American capitalists, and in its form it is similar to a lurid recollection of newspaper reports. The author stays outside the events, and documents with a dour, gelid voice the misery of the Indians and of everyone who lives in the region. What is more upsetting in the novel that the novel does not skip on the details and gives a precise description of a suppurating leg or the hunger of the Indians who resent to dig out carcasses to eat something. These details can make the reader wonder whether the writer chose to infuriate them or he revels in describing these nauseating events. Sometimes I had the feeling as if I was watching Bunuel's Las Hurdes, I did not know whether the writer was pulling my leg or not. Thus, instead of opening the eyes to the situation, the book was similar to a snuff movie, made to audience that has a perverted joy in knowing how miserable the world is, though nevertheless it also very absorbing.
ICAZA, UN MAESTRO DE ESCRITURA.......1998-12-17
En esta novela Icaza nos presenta a un blanco ecuatoriano, Don Alfonso Pereira. Don Alfonso Pereira abusa de los indios que le pertenecen a el. El viola a una india, flagela a un indio, deja morir a niños, ancianos y todos los otros indios que el considera basura humana. La novela se trata sobre dos problemas: las deudas de Don Alfonso Pereira y el embarazo de su hija por un cholo cuyo apellido es Cumba. Su tio le ha dicho que un gringo llamado Mr. Chapy quiere comenzar una empresa con el porque en los bosques de su hacienda hay muchas maderas de exportación, y tambien porque en esas mismas tierras hay petroleo. Don Alfonso Pereira decide firmar papeles con los gringos y va a su hacienda en Tomachi para solucionar sus dos problemas (los de la deuda y el embrazo de su hija). Una de las cosas que los gringos le piden a Don Alfonso Pereira es que elimine a los huasipungos de los indios que quedan en las laderas para poder construir allí casas para ellos mismos. Un huasipungo es el padeso de tierra que un patron le da a sus indios por el trabajo que ellos hacen en su hacienda. Cuando los indios se enteran de lo que Don Alfonso piensa hacer, ellos se vuelven locos y allí es que comienza toda la tragedia.
Los verdaderos protagonistas de Huasipungo son los indios. Jorge Icaza fue inspirado a escribir esta novela por sus propias experiencias con el indio del Ecuador. A la edad de 9 su mama y el fueron a vivir en la hacienda de su tio maternal Enrique el cual fue muy parecido a Don Alfonso Pereira, pues el tambien abusaba de sus indios. Huasipungo es un testamento sobre lo bueno y lo malo, sobre existencia y aniquilación, sobre guerra y paz, sobre fe y escepticismo, y sobre amor y odio.
Huasipungo a sido trasladada al inglés, italiano, francés, alemán, portugués, sueco, checo, polaco y ruso, etc. Huasipungo es una novela clásica universal. Antes de Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, y Julio Cortázar existio Jorge Icaza. El fue el primer escritor cuya fama llego internacional antes del `realismo mágico.' Todos los escritores de America Latina le deben homenaje a Jorge Icaza -- el padre de la literatura hispana.
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Huasipungo
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Huasipungo: obra adaptada para los ninos por Prof. Argentino Juan O'trebor y Jorge Icaza. Tercera Edicion.
"Se termino de imprimir en las Prensas de los Talleres Graficos de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, el 22 de Agosto de 1963.
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Huasipungo. (Novela)
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- Holly Lisle Improves
- Clash of Cultures
- Straight 5 stars speak for themself....
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Talyn: A Novel of Korre (Y)
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In a world where technology is magic, and war is the only way of life, Talyn is a soldier...
…raised from birth to fight for her people and her country. She long ago embraced her fate: to die in battle. So when a shocking peace sweeps her land, she's cast adrift, and easily seduced by an outsider's touch, his new magic -- but his passions are evil and run deep, and Talyn soon finds herself twisted by his touch.
Through him she discovers darkness within herself she’d never suspected—and the mistreatment of prisoners of war, the creeping blackness sneaking through her land, the insidious evil that no one even suspected their peacekeepers of bringing.
Now she must weigh her life against her honor if she is to help her people regain their freedom…
Customer Reviews:
Holly Lisle Improves.......2007-09-18
I have enjoyed Holly Lisle's work before, but have not been all that impressed. This work shows a great improvement in her writing. 'Talyn' portrays a vividly imagined world and features a strong, mature female protagonist. She has put a lot of thought and craft into her world building, and it has paid off. I can't say I much like her created language's style, but she is consistent in its usage and it aids in identifying the culture.
I found 'Talyn' nearly impossible to put down, and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Clash of Cultures.......2006-10-29
Talyn (2005) is a standalone fantasy novel. Korre is a world with seven continents, the Islands of the Fallen Sun, and numerous other islands. Hyre is the smallest continent, located between Velobrina and Tandinapalis.
Hyre is divided between the Eastil Republic to the east and the Confederacy of Hyre to the west. Eastil is a monarchic republic, with a variegated population descending from prison colonies. The Confederacy is a collection of city-states and nomadic tribes, all descending from the Tonks of Tandinapalis. These nations have been warring with each other for three hundred years.
In this novel, Talyn Wyran av Tiirsha dryn Sytaad is a Tonk and a Shielder in the army of Beyltaak, one of the seven major taaks in the Confederacy. She has been in the army since being drafted at the age of thirteen after Magics Intelligence detected the first signs of magical talent. As a Shielder, she intercepts and neutralizes magical attacks by enemy Senders.
Recently rumors of a ceasefire negotiated by Feegash Diplomats have circulated among the Beyltaak Magics. Feegash come from the mountain kingdom of Ba'sfeegash and are reputed to have the best mercenary troops in the world. Their Diplomats often act as mediators of international conflicts and have an excellent reputation for honesty and fair dealing.
Usually Talyn protects the Conventional troops from magical attacks, but she has gained a bit of important information during the last, massive attack. She had a passing encounter with an enemy Sender that suggested Eastil forces will be attacking an upcoming meeting of all the Taaklords in Injtaak. She passes this intelligence on to her commander and later her unit is assigned as backup for the Injtaak Shielders.
Captain Gair Farhallen is leading his nine man company of infiltrators to Injtaak to disrupt the Alltaak Hend. They have all been trained in the language, cultures and customs of the Confederacy. After a final briefing and pep-talk, each trooper heads into the city-state by different ways, trying to blend into the crowds coming for the meeting of the Taaklords.
Before the Taaklords begin to gather, Talyn and her team enter the View -- a magical place loosely equivalent to normal space -- and coordinates with the Injtaak Shielders. Her team divides the meeting area among themselves and start looking for the enemy. By brushing against their presence within the View, each Shielder can sense something of the mood of people in normal space. Talyn eventually spots one of the infiltrators on the roof of the building and announces her find. Other Shielders begin to detect the enemy and guide Conventionals to the suspects.
Gair starts the attack, but finds that some of his company, including his Communicator, have already been taken into custody by Confederacy troops. Although Gair and some of his men still manage to set the building aflame with Greton Fire, almost all of his troopers are eventually captured or killed. Moreover, Gair is not able to signal back to the Eastil troops massed and waiting at the border.
In this story, Gair later finds that none of the Taaklords were killed in the attack. A handful of Feegash Diplomats died in the fire, but all the Tonks -- except three scribes who tried to redirect the Feegash -- fled through the escape tunnels. Obviously Eastil intelligence missed a few facts about Injtaak.
Talyn later intervenes when Tonk bystanders are stoning the Eastil captives. Gair and his men are identified as Eastil soldiers by the Magics who arrest them, but none of his troopers are wearing uniforms or carrying identification. Then the Eastil authorities are so disrupted by the Feegash ceasefire activities that Gair and his men drop through the cracks. Beyltaak authorities make special provisions for their incarceration while awaiting notice of POW status, but later the Eastils are moved into the civilian prison and eventually stashed in a wet, smelly and cold dungeon cell.
Talyn has several encounters with Feegash Diplomats, including an embarrassing gift of a beautiful horse from an unknown and overgenerous benefactor. When the only remaining member of Gair's unit appears and requests her help, Talyn asks her acquaintance, the junior Feegash Diplomat Skirmig, to get the Eastils out of the prison. She provides space in her loft for their care and asks her healer to treat their wounds.
This story may be an allegory about the peoples of our world, particularly the United States of America. All of the peoples in this novel seem to symbolize some aspects of contemporary societies. The Eastils obviously represent the USA, with the English monarchical origins and the subsequent melting pot. The Confederacy shows some of the stubborn isolationism and resistance to the foreign influx found in the USA, yet it mostly seems to represent the resistance of various cultures throughout the world to Western Society and Globalization. Feegash may symbolize American arrogance and ignorance of other cultures.
Is America seen by the rest of the world as consolidating everybody into a single materialistic culture, where there are no good or evil, only more or less expedient behaviors? Have we no regard for other traditions and customs? On the other hand, will we build a wall around the country and keep everybody else out? What if the Indians had built such a wall and kept our ancestors out of the country? This story seems to have many ramifications beyond the entertaining tale itself.
Highly recommended for Lisle fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of interesting characters, high adventure and perseverance.
-Arthur W. Jordin
Straight 5 stars speak for themself...........2006-01-06
I could not believe that every reviewer from the picky amazon.com readers could all agree on a 5-star book, but I have been proven wrong before.
This book deserves all five stars and more. It was a complete up-all-night-til-it-is-done book. It was original and very in-depth.
CHARACTERS:
All the characters are really well developed and go through an amazing change during the story. The main character is of course Talyn and you read about her through first-person. Her thoughts and philosophies are really interesting although at first they seem like brainwash. It was really interesting learning about a society (the Tonks) through someone so fiercely patriotic.
The other character, Gair, is in third-person, making it an interesting balance between the two. He represents the biggest flaw in the book because towards the end he gets a little too wussy until he makes up for it in the final scene.
There also is an alluded two other characters, the Tonks and the Eastils. They are the two warring societies that make up the continent Hyre. They are so richly explored through Talyn's and Gair's eyes that they have their own personalities so different from the rest of the world.
SETTING:
As I said before, their are two warring socities, the Tonks and the Eastils, that have been fighting for three hundred years. Here is where Lisa's originality shines through. Each nation has very extreme differences, but based on the thoughts of the two characters it ends up to be hard to hate either of them.
There were a few flaws that did start to wear me down towards the end. For one, the big paragraphs of summarization got a little tiredsome. And, although the title of the book is "Talyn", I wish Gair had a little bit of a bigger role with the magic. Other than that it really was an amazing book, and I would highly recommend it to fiction and fantasy readers alike.
Fresh, fast-paced and thrilling.......2006-01-05
Intriguing
Original
Utterly engrossing
Penetrating
Masterfully characterised
Realistic
.... Count the adjectives, sure, but they don't do justice to Talyn. Adjectives cannot tell you how powerfully Lisle's imagination creates the sense of being surrounded by the time and space and culture of this novel. Adjectives are impotent in describing how this novel digs its hooks into you as surely as any Feegash flesh-magery, and holds you helpless in its thrall as it unleashes terror after terror, twist after plot twist, revelation after startling revelation.
Talyn (her full name is longer, and much harder to spell) is a soldier in the Tonk Confederacy, a nation that has been at war with its neighbour, the Eastil Republic, for the better part of three centuries. It's a war that's fueled by the forces of habit and mischaracterisation of the enemy more than anything, and though as a reader, it is easy to see that the Tonks and the Eastils have a lot in common, Lisle to her credit does a superb job of keeping this realisation from her characters without dumbing them down in contrived ways. Talyn is committed to her enimity with the Eastils, and remains so for more than three-quarters of the book, in spite of her alliance with and love for an Eastil prisoner of war.
The alliance is one that is anything but welcome to both Gair, the Eastil prisoner, and Talyn. But they alone among all their kinsmen are free of the deadly magic that the outsider race called the Feegash have cunningly unleashed upon their shared land. Now, to save their kinsmen, their way of life, and everything they love, they must work together on a mission that rides on but a fool's hope, each trusting the honour of the other, the enemy.
Lisle unflinchingly puts her characters through hell and worse, over and over again, and still brings them out each time damaged, but shining brighter than before with the light of people whose honour has been tested and forged stronger. The Feegash villains are the embodiment of an insidious, convincing evil. Lisle's grasp of the intricacies of diplomacy and politics is once again evident in this latest work, and as usual, she shines as she deals with the plots and intrigues of war in her world.
But Lisle's true strength lies in her world-building. Talyn's despair at seeing her people's culture being thrown up in flames is our own, because by then, we are able to appreciate its beauty and rarity. In Lisle's commentary and descriptions of the differing Tonk and Eastil cultures, we gain a better understanding of our own world and our own societies... and in the end, that's what good fantasy should do.
Holly Lisle's Finest Work.......2005-11-22
Talyn is a novel that will haunt me long after I've finished it. It contains all the right elements of a fully engrossing read: excellent world-building, vivacious characterizations, and a well-paced, complex plot.
The novel's world is vivid and finely developed. There are no medieval European cliches here; Korre is a world very much of its own and unlike anything I've read before. Talyn's love of her homeland enriched the descriptions that may have been bland and overkill if told in third person. Instead, they are fully immersive.
Talyn's narration is poignant and engaging. The scenes in third person add much to the story, as well. It was sometimes jarring switching between the two, but such changes were infrequent enough that they did not become distracting. The characters were vivid and finely developed, especially the villain, who was sympathetic enough to be very frightening.
Talyn is a very well-plotted novel that keeps growing on itself as conflicts get bigger and more complex. The novel is not without its share of plot twists and surprises. In all, Talyn is epic fantasy at its finest.
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The End of This Day's Business
Katharine Burdekin
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Written in 1935 but never published until now, this novel depicts a world ruled by women some 4,000 years into the future. Men live alone and rear boys in a cheerful atmosphere of sports, physical labor, and healthy sexuality, but without the consciousness of anxiety or knowledge of history claimed by women. The plot of the novel described by
Choice as "a forgotten masterpiece", turns on the desire of one woman to teach her son about the past. Risking their lives, she tells the story of the rise of fascism and the subsequent world transformation as life-loving women took over from death-lovign men.
"Burdekin's novel is one of the few serious role-reversal utopias we have. I read it in one sitting." -
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A fascinating utopian role reversal.......2000-05-09
I found out about this novel through my professor, Daphne Patai, who wrote the afterword and also contributed to getting this work published. In this book, Burdekin creates a world in which men are inferior to women and shows us how truly important equality is. It is rather ironic that the publisher of this novel is the Feminist Press because the book isn't at all promoting women as the superior gender. Instead, the author gives us characters that sacrifice their lives to restore the balance of power between the sexes. This book is well-written, however it does tend to go into long lectures at some points. The middle of the novel (chapters 3 and 4) is rather tedious and really could have been shortened or revised. But overall, this book is an interesting and often thought-provoking and even humorous. Altogether, a good read.
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Take Charge of Your weight.......2007-06-27
I found this book to be an invaluable tool in my weightloss efforts. I use the tips and techniques all the time.
Handy, Not necessary.......2007-01-10
Weight Watcher Tools for Living Companion is a handy reference for members. The information it contains, however, is usually discussed at meetings so it really isn't imperative that you own one. I like it because it refreshes my memory about thr tools. It is easy to read.
Not very deep.......2006-10-17
I was hoping this book would go into more detail and explain the concepts of the tools for living. They are a collection of motivational and behavoir modification techniques and I was hoping I could find out more about them. The book was short and the treatment was light.
Great Book.......2006-03-02
The book went deeper into each step of the tools for living. It gives great steps for the 8 ways to get what you want from weight watchers. The book is a good size to put in your carry on when you travel.
Great service.......2005-08-31
The book came quickly and was in excellent condition. Thank you for such great service.
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