The night visitor, and other stories
By: [by] B. Traven. Introd. by Charles Miller.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Description: This book includes ten short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of "The Night Visitor" is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend. "The Cattle Drive" is a vivid description of a cowboy's trek with a thousand head of cattle across the Mexican plains; it has all the authenticity that Hollywood Westerns lack. "Macario, " which was made into a prize-winning motion picture, is a wry Mexican fable about an Indian woodcutter who makes a compact with the devil to save his family from starvation. Among seven shorter stories, some are based on incidents from contemporary Mexican life, others on ancient Indian folk legends.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 237-238.