Elena garro sobre octavio paz biography

TANYA HUNTINGTON: Those of us who are familiar with your career know that while you have devoted many pages to outstanding Latin American women writers, you are perhaps most well-known as the author of La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From history to myth.

Was it La Malinche who first led you to delve into Elena Garro’s work?

SANDRA CYPESS: My interest in Garro in a way does begin with La Malinche, for it was her short story “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas” that first inspired me to write about the impact of La Malinche on Mexican culture.

Elena garro sobre octavio paz biography

Reading Los recuerdos del porvenir and “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas” were transformative experiences for me, and I began to formulate my ideas about the Malinche paradigm in general, and Garro’s contributions in particular.

TH: Many of us consider Paz’s views on Mexican women in El laberinto to be seriously outdated.

Which perhaps should come as no surprise, considering that the book was first published in 1950. Would you agree? How do yo