My idea to compile this list of classic Mexican books first came up while I was talking about Japanese authors. I had been thinking of doing an informal miniseries where I focus on the specific literary traditions and histories of different ethnicities and nationalities, when, during a workshop I was attending, I had mentioned that the first recorded novel in history came from a Japanese noblewoman. This, of course, set us down a path of not only the history of Japanese literature, but also the context in which said novel—The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, in case you didn’t know—sprang from. But more on that another time.
Through this conversation, I was reminded of how many people don’t know about rich literary tra...
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