Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska

Tinisima by Elena Poniatowska

For this fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), Elena Poniatowska devoted ten years of research to fully understand the woman who was so caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War I decades.

At different times in her life, Modotti was a silent screen actress, a model for Diego Rivera's murals, and a lover of photographer Edward Weston. She was also a champion for the Mexican people who lovingly referred to her as Tinisima.

In 1929, Modotti was accused of the murder of Julio Antonio Mella, her Cuban lover. She fled to the U.S.S.R. to escape the Mexican press and then to Europe, where she became a Soviet secret agent and a nurse under an assumed name, returning to Mexico to meet an early death at the age of forty-five.

Poniatowska has made an art form of blending journalism and fiction. She tells this novel in an urgent present tense, segueing among short, vivid scenes with cinematic virtuosity. Ten years of research and a thorough knowledge of the currents of history contribute to this portrait, but equally important is Poniatowska's intuitive appreciation of a woman shaped and destroyed by her tumultuous times.--Publishers Weekly

Poniatowska's profoundly moving evocation of her heroine's boundless soul flows like blood through the carefully erected factual structure of the real Modotti's astonishing life story. . . . A tour de force, Tinisima is a work to treasure.--Booklist

Poniatowska, Elena: - Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and writer. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco about the brutal repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. She is the author of dozens of works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Among a lifetime of honors, she was the first woman to win the Premio Nacional de Periodismo, Mexico's highest journalism award, and in 2013 won the Premio Cervantes Literature Award, the highest Spanish-language literary award for an author's lifetime works.

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ISBN 13	9789684113053
ISBN 10	9684113056
Titel	Tinisima
Autor	Elena Poniatowska
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Era
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-12-01
Seitenanzahl	663
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.