LEWIS- THE MARTINEZ FAMILY ed.1

LEWIS OSCAR

THE MARTINEZ FAMILY

The life of a Mexican peasant

Wyd.1

Warsaw 1970, PIW, pp. 633 [3], format: 13x20cm

"The genius of a great artist can sometimes create a work that reflects the element of life and characters that are living people, like Cervantes' Sancho Pansa. In Lewis' book, however, this element spoke as if by itself, in the words of living people, recorded on tape, the words of the authentic Sancho Panza of our age - Pedro Martinez, a Mexican peasant shaking off his own life. This time it was the scientist who achieved this unique effect of truthfulness, simply noting down what Pedro and successively his entire family think and feel. The truth - whether about the man or the events - appears to us here complex, seen from many sides, tragic and funny, pathetic and ironic." From the wrapper leaf.

HARDCOVER CLOTH BINDING WITH WRAPPER

BDB condition/ dedication on title page, NICE pieces