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This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City's most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success, including the chance to quit prostitution, Santa is propelled by her personal demons toward her ultimate downfall. This evocative novel—justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city's customs, social interactions, and political activities—assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired Mexico's first ""talkie"" and several other film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book. Naturalist writer Federico Gamboa, who was also a lawyer and politician, reveals much about Mexican mores and culture at the start of the twentieth century and beyond, from expectations regarding gender roles to the myth of the corrupting and decadent city. In describing how Santa is at the mercy of social problems beyond her control, Gamboa provides a rich historical portrayal of widespread conditions in the years leading to the Mexican Revolution. |This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City's most sought-after courtesan. This evocative novel—justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city's customs, social interactions, and political activities—assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903.

This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City’s most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success, including the chance to quit prostitution, Santa is propelled by her personal demons toward her ultimate downfall. This evocative novel—justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city’s customs, social interactions, and political activities—assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired Mexico’s first “talkie” and several other film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book.Naturalist writer Federico Gamboa, who was also a lawyer and politician, reveals much about Mexican mores and culture at the start of the twentieth century and beyond, from expectations regarding gender roles to the myth of the corrupting and decadent city. In describing how Santa is at the mercy of social problems beyond her control, Gamboa provides a rich historical portrayal of widespread conditions in the years leading to the Mexican Revolution.

This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City''s most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success, including the chance to quit prostitution, Santa is propelled by her personal demons toward her ultimate downfall. This evocative novel—justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city''s customs, social interactions, and political activities—assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired Mexico''s first "talkie" and several other film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book.Naturalist writer Federico Gamboa, who was also a lawyer and politician, reveals much about Mexican mores and culture at the start of the twentieth century and beyond, from expectations regarding gender roles to the myth of the corrupting and decadent city. In describing how Santa is at the mercy of social problems beyond her control, Gamboa provides a rich historical portrayal of widespread conditions in the years leading to the Mexican Revolution.

Escrita en 1903, esta novela no es producto de las lecturas sino de la experiencia directa del autor, que retrata la vida nocturna, las tertulias, las fiestas y los arrabales de la capital mexicana que le tocó vivir. A través de la historia de una campesina que se convierte en prostituta, Gamboa nos lleva por una ciudad pecaminosa y oscura. A diferencia de Naná de Zola, a quien el autor mexicano conoció en 1893 y de quien recibió una influencia determinante para su obra, Santa provoca compasión y no odio.

Escrita en 1903, esta novela no es producto de las lecturas sino de la experiencia directa del autor, que retrata la vida nocturna, las tertulias, las fiestas y los arrabales de la capital mexicana que le tocó vivir. A través de la historia de una campesina que se convierte en prostituta, Gamboa nos lleva por una ciudad pecaminosa y oscura. A diferencia de Naná de Zola, a quien el autor mexicano conoció en 1893 y de quien recibió una influencia determinante para su obra, Santa provoca compasión y no odio.

En Todos somos iguales frente a las tentaciones. Una antología general se incluyen muestras de las mejores incursiones en la novela, el cuento, el teatro y la crítica teatral de Federico Gamboa. Como parte de la serie Viajes al siglo XIX, continua con el objetivo de la colección: ofrecer a un público amplio una muestra representativa de la producción literaria de Federico Gamboa y servir como introducción a su variada y rica obra y a las transformaciones histórico-culturales que la hicieron posible.

"Del Periquillo Sarniento a Pedro Páramo y Artemio Cruz, la novelística mexicana ha producido grandes personajes y un solo mito: Santa." José Emilio PachecoFederico Gamboa vivió a caballo entre los siglos XIX y XX, y aunque su extensa obra incluye novela, teatro, memorias y artículos periodísticos, hoy se le recuerda, sobre todo, por Santa, novela de corte naturalista ubicada en el ocaso del porfiriato y que gozó de una gran popularidad en su época. Con el paso del tiempo el libro ha logrado mantenerse en el gusto del público, siendo objeto de varias adaptaciones cinematográficas y televisivas. Centrada en las desventuras de una inocente joven nacida en Chimalistac que, tras caer en la prostitución, se ve atrapada en una vorágine que la arrastra fatalmente a su propia destrucción, Santa es, además, un vigoroso retrato de la Ciudad de México y una denuncia de la hipocresía y la doble moral de la sociedad.

This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City’s most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success, including the chance to quit prostitution, Santa is propelled by her personal demons toward her ultimate downfall. This evocative novel—justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city’s customs, social interactions, and political activities—assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired Mexico’s first “talkie” and several other film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book.Naturalist writer Federico Gamboa, who was also a lawyer and politician, reveals much about Mexican mores and culture at the start of the twentieth century and beyond, from expectations regarding gender roles to the myth of the corrupting and decadent city. In describing how Santa is at the mercy of social problems beyond her control, Gamboa provides a rich historical portrayal of widespread conditions in the years leading to the Mexican Revolution.