Title: The night visitor and other stories
First published: 1973
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.
Subjects: Translations into English, Juvenile fiction, Translations into Spanish, Ficción juvenil, English fiction, NOVELAS MEXICANAS, Spanish fiction, Fiction, general, Manners and customs, Fiction, Translations
Places: México, Mexico
People: B. Traven (1882-1969)
LC classification: PR6039.R28 N58