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The Lawless Roads (1939) (published as Another Mexico in the United States) is a travel account by Graham Greene, based on his 1938 trip to Mexico, to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularization and how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Plutarco Elías ...
- Graham Greene
- United Kingdom
- 1939
- 1939
30 de ene. de 2016 · Collection. opensource. Language. English. Reading The Lawless Roads reminded me of a comment from Albert Camus from his notebooks: 'What gives value to travel is its fear. It is the fact that when we are so far from our own country we are siezed by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits'.
The Lawless Roads is a fascinating study of Greene’s journey. Beginning in Laredo on to Mexico City, Veracruz, Frontera, Palenque, Yajalon, Las Casas, Tuxfla, Oaxaca and back to Mexico City. He travels by car, bus, train, plane, burro and boat. Enduring some very uncomfortable experiences.
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25 de jun. de 2022 · Internet Archive. Language. English. xiv, 221 pages : 20 cm. Now with a new introduction by David Rieff, The Lawless Roads is the result of Graham Greene's expedition to Mexico in the late 1930s to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles.
Tampoco lo menciona David Rieff en su prólogo de 2006 a la edición Penguin Classics de The Lawless Roads, un texto necesariamente breve que omite otro dato esencial sobre el origen de este viaje: el hecho de que no se debía únicamente al propósito ferviente de Greene de registrar los sucesos antirreligiosos en México por razones personales, sino que fue financiado por el editor católico ...
29 de mar. de 2022 · The lawless roads by Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Publication date 2002 Topics
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey.
