Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams

Elena Garro and Mexico''s Modern Dreams uses Elena Garro’s eccentric life and work as a lens through which to examine mid-twentieth-century Mexican intellectuals'' desire to reconcile mexicanidad with modernidad.

The famously scandalous first wife of Nobel Prize winner poet Octavio Paz, and an award-winning author in her own right, Garro constructed a mysterious and often contradictory persona thr...