by J. M. G. Le Clézio · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070700424
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«Relation de Michoacan» is the historical chronicle translated and presented by J. M. G. Le Clézio, published by Gallimard in 1984 (315 pages, in French).
Account of the history, beliefs, gods and heroes of the Purépecha people of Michoacán, recorded around 1540 at the request of the Spanish conquerors based on the testimony of their elders. Tzintzuntzan and the last monarch Tangaxoan Zinzicha are central to this memory of a vanished civilization.
Translation of the 'Relación de las ceremonias y ritos y población y gobierno de los indios de la Provincia de Michoacán' (1541). Tradition collection; paperback, with bibliography and plates.
For those interested in the history of Mexico, indigenous cultures and the accounts of colonial chroniclers.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French, Mauritian, and British nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
