The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His Children
by De Lizardi, Jose Joaquin Fernandez; Frye, David L.; Vogeley, Nancy; Frye, David L.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-03-01
Publisher(s): Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Summary
Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi's experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel -- the first to be published in Latin America -- after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death -- and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain. Though never before published in its entirety in English, The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence. Raw descriptions of colonial street life, candid portraits of race and ethnicity, and barely camouflaged attacks on colonial authority fill this comic masterpiece of world literature -- the Don Quixote of Latin America.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | xi | ||||
| Translator's Note | xxxi | ||||
| Prologue, dedication, and foreword to the readers | 3 | (4) | |||
| Prologue by the Mangy Parrot | 7 | (2) | |||
| General Note for the Readers | 9 | (73) | |||
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11 | (7) | |||
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18 | (8) | |||
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26 | (8) | |||
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34 | (8) | |||
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42 | (6) | |||
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48 | (8) | |||
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56 | (9) | |||
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65 | (6) | |||
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71 | (11) | |||
| 10. Periquillo's father concludes his lesson; Periquillo decides to study theology; he abandons it; his father wants him to learn a trade; he resists; and other matters | 82 | (10) | |||
| 11. Periquillo dons the friar's habit and regrets it on the same day; with other relevant and entertaining stories | 92 | (11) | |||
| 12. On advice, good and bad; the death of Periquillo's father; and his leaving the monastery | 103 | (6) | |||
| Prologue in the guise of a story | 109 | (4) | |||
| 13. Periquillo speaks of getting out of mourning, and expounds upon funerals, condolences, burials, mourning clothes, and so on | 113 | (11) | |||
| 14. Periquillo criticizes dances, and makes a long and useful digression, speaking of the bad educations that many parents give their sons, and the bad sons who grieve their parents | 124 | (11) | |||
| 15. Periquillo writes of his mother's death, and other matters that are not altogether disagreeable | 135 | (13) | |||
| 16. Alone, poor, and abandoned by his relatives, Periquillo meets Juan Largo, who persuades him to embark on a scoundrel's career, specializing in being a pest of the gaming tables | 148 | (12) | |||
| 17. Periquillo continues the tale of his hard work and rich rewards as a gambler; he seriously criticizes gambling, and suffers a dangerous adventure that he scarcely lives to recount | 160 | (11) | |||
| 18. Periquillo revives and finds himself in the hospital; he criticizes hospital abuses; Januario visits him; he convalesces and leaves; he recounts the jobs he held; his teacher induces him to become a thief; he resists, and they argue about robbery | 171 | (12) | |||
| 19. In which our author recounts his time in prison, his luck in finding a friend there, and the latter's life story | 183 | (12) | |||
| 20. Periquillo recounts what happened with his notary, and Don Antonio continues telling him his life story | 195 | (11) | |||
| 21. Periquillo recounts the obnoxious joke that the prisoners played on him in jail, and Don Antonio concludes his life story | 206 | (11) | |||
| 22. Don Antonio is released from jail; Periquillo gives himself over to the friendship of his roguish companions; and what happened between him and El Aguilucho | 217 | (10) | |||
| 23. In which Periquillo recounts how he was robbed in jail; how Don Antonio bid him farewell; the troubles he suffered; and other things that perhaps will not displease the readers | 227 | (13) | |||
| 24. In which Periquillo describes how he got out of jail, criticizes bad notaries, and finally, relates the reason why and the shameful way in which he left the house of Chanfaina | 240 | (13) | |||
| 25. In which Periquillo recounts the reception that a barber gave him; the reason why he left his house; about finding a job in an apothecary shop and leaving it; and other curious adventures | 253 | (16) | |||
| 26. In which Periquillo relates how he found a job with Dr. Purgante, what he learned at his side, how he robbed him and ran away, and his adventures in Tula, where he pretended to be a physician | 269 | (16) | |||
| 27. Periquillo tells the story of several things that happened to him in Tula, and what he was forced to suffer at the hand of the priest | 285 | (10) | |||
| 28. In which our Perico tells us about the conclusion to the priest's sermon, the unfortunate hand he had in a plague, and the wicked way he left town, touching, in the course of the chapter, on various curious matters | 295 | (9) | |||
| 29. Which recounts the frightful adventure of the potter and the story of the man in rags | 304 | (14) | |||
| 30. In which Periquillo tells about the jackpot he won; the end of Chanfaina the notary; how he fell back in with Luisa; and other details that will satisfy the curiosity of the readers | 318 | (13) | |||
| 31. In which we learn of how Periquillo threw Luisa out of his house, and his marriage to young Mariana | 331 | (14) | |||
| 32. In which Periquillo describes Luisa's fate, a bloody adventure he had, and other delightful and entertaining events | 345 | (5) | |||
| 33. In which we learn how Periquillo became a sexton; his adventure with a corpse; his entrance into the brotherhood of beggars; and other things as true as they are interesting | 350 | (14) | |||
| 34. In which Periquillo relates how he got along with the subdelegado; the latter's character and wicked behavior, and that of the parish priest; the settlement that the subdelegado was forced to accept; how Perico discharged his duties as interim magistrate; and finally, the honorable way in which they kicked him out of town | 364 | (11) | |||
| 35. Wherein Periquillo describes his good fortune in being the colonel's adjutant; the character of the colonel; their embarkation for Manila; and other entertaining details | 375 | (11) | |||
| 36. In which Periquillo recounts the egotist's disastrous adventure and his untimely end as a result of the ship's running aground; the advice that the colonel gave him on this occasion; and his happy arrival in Manila | 386 | (11) | |||
| What follows is the manuscript that the author left unpublished for the reasons expressed below | 397 | (1) | |||
| 37. Periquillo describes his good behavior in Manila, the duel between an Englishman and a Black, and a little argument that is not to be missed | 398 | (9) | |||
| 38. Our author continues describing his good conduct and fortune in Manila; he tells about his discharge, the death of the colonel, the funeral, and other entertaining trifles | 407 | (5) | |||
| 39. In which our author describes how he set sail for Acapulco; his shipwreck; the warm welcome he was given in the island where he landed; and other curious matters | 412 | (11) | |||
| 40. In which our Perico tells how he pretended to be a count on the island; how well it went for him; what he saw there; and the conversations he had with the foreigners at dinner, which are not entirely to be sniffed at | 423 | (10) | |||
| 41. In which Periquillo describes how he witnessed some executions in that city; he tells who the prisoners were; and he relates a curious conversation about penal codes that took place between the Chinese and the Spaniard | 433 | (8) | |||
| 42. In which Perico describes how he earned the Chinese's trust; how he came with him to Mexico; and the happy days he spent at his side, spending money grandly and passing as a count | 441 | (9) | |||
| 43. In which Perico tells of the wicked way he left the house of the Chinese, and other pretty little details; but you will have to read them to know them | 450 | (10) | |||
| 44. In which our Perico tells of how he tried to hang himself; the reason why he did not do it; the ungratefulness he experienced from a friend; the scare he suffered at a wake; his escape from this capital, and other little things | 460 | (9) | |||
| 45. In which Periquillo describes his encounter with a gang of thieves, who they were, what they gave him, and his adventures in their company | 469 | (10) | |||
| 46. In which our author tells the adventures he had in the gang of thieves; the sad spectacle presented by the cadaver of a hanged man; and the beginnings of his conversion | 479 | (9) | |||
| 47. In which Periquillo describes how he entered the retreat in La Profesa; his encounter with Roque; who his confessor was; and the favors he owed him, not the least of which was finding him a job in a shop | 488 | (6) | |||
| 48. In which Periquillo describes his conduct in San Agustin de las Cuevas, the adventure of his friend Anselmo, and other episodes that are not unpleasant in the least | 494 | (8) | |||
| 49. In which Perico tells the adventure of the misanthrope, his life story, and the discovery of the whereabouts of the man in rags, which is not to be scorned | 502 | (10) | |||
| 50. In which Periquillo tells of his second marriage, and other things of interest for the full understanding of this true history | 512 | (10) | |||
| 51. In which Periquillo recounts his master's death, the departure of the Chinese, and his last illness; and the editor continues telling the rest of his story, up to the death of our hero | 522 | (13) | |||
| 52. In which "the Thinker" recounts the burial of Perico, and other matters that lead the reader by the hand to the end of this very truthful history | 535 |
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