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ChronicleFlorentine CodexHistoria general de las cosas de Nueva EspañaBernardino de Sahagún · 1577A comprehensive work on Nahua civilisation, gathered from the elders and recorded in their language.Literature
TheatreThe Truth SuspectedLa verdad sospechosaJuan Ruiz de Alarcón · 1623A young nobleman who is a liar, let loose at the court of Madrid, and a comedy that makes a flaw its driving force.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeThe Misfortunes of Alonso RamírezInfortunios de Alonso RamírezCarlos de Sigüenza y Góngora · 1690A sailor from Puerto Rico, captured by pirates, is made to sail around the world against his will at the end of the seventeenth century.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryFirst DreamPrimero sueñoSor Juana Inés de la Cruz · 1692A soul freed by sleep tries to embrace all the knowledge of the world, in a great poem of the baroque of New Spain.LiteraturePublic domain
ChronicleThe Books of Chilam BalamChilam BalamAnonymous · 1700The conquest destroyed the glyphic books; what survives of Maya thought was copied in the Latin alphabet by those who had learned it at church.Literature
NovelThe Itching ParrotEl Periquillo SarnientoJoaquín Fernández de Lizardi · 1816A good-for-nothing from Mexico City recounts his adventures for the benefit of his children, on the eve of independence.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreContigo pan y cebollaManuel Eduardo de Gorostiza · 1833not translated into EnglishA young woman from Madrid who takes novels literally, and a comedy against romantic fashions.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelMonja y casada, virgen y mártirVicente Riva Palacio · 1868not translated into EnglishCloak and dagger in colonial Mexico City of the seventeenth century, under the gaze of the Inquisition.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelPor donde se sube al cieloManuel Gutiérrez Nájera · 1882not translated into EnglishA Parisian actress of the Second Empire in search of another life, seen by a writer from Mexico City.Literature
PoetryMusa callejeraGuillermo Prieto · 1883not translated into EnglishThe streets and ordinary people of the capital set in song verse, under a pseudonym known to everyone.Literature
NovelLa bolaEmilio Rabasa · 1887not translated into EnglishA riot in a small town in provincial Mexico, told by a young man who finds himself caught up in it.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelLa CalandriaRafael Delgado · 1890not translated into EnglishA poor young provincial girl torn between a workman who loves her and a young man of good family who flatters her.Literature
PoetryLascasSalvador Díaz Mirón · 1901not translated into EnglishShort poems cut like stone, by a poet who disowns the manner of his youth.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryPoemas rústicosManuel José Othón · 1902not translated into EnglishVerses of the countryside and of the sierra of the North, by a provincial judge who became a poet of landscape.Literature
NovelSantaFederico Gamboa · 1903A village girl thrown into the brothels of Mexico City at the twilight of the Porfiriato.Literature
PoetryLos senderos ocultosEnrique González Martínez · 1911not translated into EnglishA book that dismisses the bird of modernismo and prefers the one that looks without singing.Literature
NovelThe UnderdogsLos de abajoMariano Azuela · 1915A peasant from Zacatecas rises up, and his band loses its way in a revolution whose ideals fade.Literature
EssayVision of Anáhuac (1519)Visión de AnáhuacAlfonso Reyes · 1917The Aztec country at the conquerors' first glance, reconstructed by an exile in Madrid.Literature
Feature filmThe Grey AutomobileEl automóvil grisEnrique Rosas · 1919False soldiers plunder the rich of the capital in the midst of revolution, re-enacted where they struck.Cinema
PoetryLa amada inmóvilAmado Nervo · 1920not translated into EnglishThe mourning of a love kept secret for ten years, written day by day after the death of the beloved.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesLa señorita EtcéteraArqueles Vela · 1922not translated into EnglishThe modern metropolis and an elusive woman, in an Estridentista narrative that refuses any plot.Literature
PoetryMetropolisUrbeManuel Maples Arce · 1924The modern city in revolution, in five cantos of cables, engines and working-class crowds.Literature
NovelThe Eagle and the SerpentEl águila y la serpienteMartín Luis Guzmán · 1928The revolution seen by a young intellectual at the closest range to its leaders, from hope to disillusion.Literature
Short storiesCartuchoNellie Campobello · 1931The Mexican Revolution seen at a child's height, in the north won over to Pancho Villa.Literature
Feature filmQue Viva Mexico!¡Que viva México!Sergei M. Eisenstein · 1931An unfinished fresco of Mexico in several parts, from Mayan ruins to the Day of the Dead.Cinema
Feature filmSantaAntonio Moreno · 1932A young woman seduced and then disowned by her family, between a bullfighter and a blind pianist.Cinema
Feature filmThe Woman of the PortLa mujer del puertoArcady Boytler · 1934A betrayed young girl ends up in a cabaret in the port of Veracruz.Cinema
Feature filmTwo MonksDos monjesJuan Bustillo Oro · 1934Two monks meet again, and the drama that binds them is told in two contrary ways.Cinema
Feature filmJanitzioCarlos Navarro · 1935An Indian fisherman faces the outsiders who covet his waters and his fiancée, on an island in Michoacán.Cinema
Feature filmThe WaveRedesEmilio Gómez Muriel · 1936A fishing village rises up against those who set the price of its catch.Cinema
Feature filmLet's Go with Pancho Villa¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!Fernando de Fuentes · 1936Six peasants join Villa in 1914 and discover what the revolution costs.Cinema
Feature filmThe Blood StainLa mancha de sangreAdolfo Best Maugard · 1937A cabaret hostess and a young man from the provinces, in the underworld of the capital.Cinema
PoetryNostalgia for DeathNostalgia de la muerteXavier Villaurrutia · 1938Nocturnes in which one sees oneself die, by the poet of the Contemporáneos group most attached to the night.Literature
Feature filmThe Unknown PolicemanEl gendarme desconocidoMiguel M. Delgado · 1941An unemployed man arrests thieves by chance, becomes a policeman and sets out in search of a stolen diamond.Cinema
Feature filmThe Rock of SoulsEl peñón de las ánimasMiguel Zacarías · 1943Two young people from enemy families fall in love despite an old quarrel over land.Cinema
Feature filmPortrait of MariaMaría CandelariaEmilio Fernández · 1944A young Indian woman from Xochimilco, rejected by her village and by the man who loves her, at the beginning of the century.Cinema
NovelThe Edge of the StormAl filo del aguaAgustín Yáñez · 1947A devout town in Jalisco in the months before the revolution, seized by a chorus of consciences.Literature
Feature filmA Family Like Many OthersUna familia de tantasAlejandro Galindo · 1949A father's authority wavers when a young salesman courts his younger daughter.Cinema
DocumentaryMemories of a MexicanMemorias de un mexicanoCarmen Toscano · 1950Half a century of Mexican life, from Porfirio Díaz to the revolution, told over newsreel footage.Cinema
Feature filmLos OlvidadosLos olvidadosLuis Buñuel · 1950The street children of a poor suburb of Mexico City, caught between the gang, hunger and the reformatory.Cinema
Feature filmBlack AngustiasLa negra AngustiasMatilde Landeta · 1950A poor, illiterate young woman becomes a Zapatista colonel during the revolution.Cinema
Short storiesConfabulario and Other InventionsConfabularioJuan José Arreola · 1952Fables and stories a few pages long, in which absurdity and irony target science, advertising and progress.Literature
PoetryDécimas a DiosGuadalupe Amor (Pita Amor) · 1953not translated into EnglishA woman who summons God to show himself, in the old Spanish stanza of the décima.Literature
NovelPedro PáramoJuan Rulfo · 1955A village peopled by voices, in the rural Mexico of the caciques, where a son goes in search of his father.Literature
Feature filmRootsRaícesBenito Alazraki · 1955Four stories of Indigenous communities, played by their own inhabitants, from the Mezquital to Yucatán.Cinema
PoetryLos demonios y los díasRubén Bonifaz Nuño · 1956not translated into EnglishEveryday Mexico City, in a social poetry that comes close to spoken language.Literature
NovelThe Nine GuardiansBalún CanánRosario Castellanos · 1957The end of the order of the great landowners of Chiapas, seen through the eyes of a child of their world.Literature
PoetrySunstonePiedra de solOctavio Paz · 1957A circular poem built on the Aztec calendar, in which love and time turn endlessly.Literature
Feature filmThe Soldiers of Pancho VillaLa CucarachaIsmael Rodríguez · 1959During the revolution, a woman leader of female soldiers and a widow compete for the love of a colonel.Cinema
Feature filmMacarioRoberto Gavaldón · 1960A poor woodcutter in New Spain is given the gift of healing by a strange guest.Cinema
NovelThe Death of Artemio CruzLa muerte de Artemio CruzCarlos Fuentes · 1962The last hours of a revolutionary turned magnate, who looks back over a life of betrayals.Literature
Feature filmThe Pearl of TlayucanTlayucanLuis Alcoriza · 1962A peasant steals a saint's pearl to heal his son, and a whole village gets involved.Cinema
NovelRecollections of Things to ComeLos recuerdos del porvenirElena Garro · 1963A military occupation in post-revolutionary Mexico, told by the place itself and in the disorder of time.Literature
NovelFarabeuf or the Chronicle of an InstantFarabeuf o la crónica de un instanteSalvador Elizondo · 1965A room, a photograph of a torture, and two people who endlessly replay the same instant.Literature
ChronicleMassacre in MexicoLa noche de TlatelolcoElena Poniatowska · 1971The voices of the 1968 Mexican student movement and of the night when it was suppressed in blood.Literature
Feature filmThe Days of LoveLos días del amorAlberto Isaac · 1972The first loves of a provincial teenager, in the time when the army is fighting a religious uprising.Cinema
Feature filmCanoa: A Shameful MemoryCanoaFelipe Cazals · 1976Five young hikers look for shelter in a village that its priest has turned against the communists.Cinema
Feature filmThe BricklayersLos albañilesJorge Fons · 1976The watchman of a building site is murdered, and the police discover that almost all the workers had a motive.Cinema
Feature filmThe Place Without LimitsEl lugar sin límitesArturo Ripstein · 1978An abandoned brothel, a cross-dressing Manuela and a truck driver frightened by his own desires.Cinema
Feature filmCananeaMarcela Fernández Violante · 1978In Sonora, an American mines copper, and his Mexican workers go on strike in 1906.Cinema
NarrativeBattles in the DesertLas batallas en el desiertoJosé Emilio Pacheco · 1980An impossible childhood love, in a Mexico that is modernising and Americanising under President Alemán.Literature
Feature filmFrida Still LifeFrida, naturaleza vivaPaul Leduc · 1983The life of Frida Kahlo seen again in fragments, from her sickbed, like a series of canvases.Cinema
NovelThe Love ParadeEl desfile del amorSergio Pitol · 1984An investigation in the Mexico of the war years, where the witnesses contradict one another and everyone is in disguise.Literature
Feature filmMotelLuis Mandoki · 1984A young couple who run a motel covet the money of a rich customer, and a policeman suspects them.Cinema
Novel1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile1492: Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de CastillaHomero Aridjis · 1985Spain of the three religions at the time of the Inquisition, followed through the eyes of a son of converts.Literature
NovelTear This Heart OutArráncame la vidaÁngeles Mastretta · 1985A general's wife in post-revolutionary Mexico tells the story of her marriage and her awakening.Literature
Feature filmDoña Herlinda and Her SonDoña Herlinda y su hijoJaime Humberto Hermosillo · 1985A mother in Guadalajara turns a blind eye to her son's love for a man, and yet wants him to marry.Cinema
Feature filmRomelia's SecretEl secreto de RomeliaBusi Cortés · 1988Three generations of women and a marriage broken off fifty years ago, which a town has not forgotten.Cinema
NovelLike Water for ChocolateComo agua para chocolateLaura Esquivel · 1989The forbidden love of a youngest daughter bound to her mother, on a Mexican ranch at the time of the revolution.Literature
Feature filmDanzónMaría Novaro · 1991A telephone switchboard operator passionate about dance travels to Veracruz to look for her missing partner.Cinema
Feature filmLove in the Time of HysteriaSólo con tu parejaAlfonso Cuarón · 1991A Mexico City seducer believes himself doomed by a false diagnosis, in a comedy of manners.Cinema
Feature filmLike Water for ChocolateComo agua para chocolateAlfonso Arau · 1992A youngest daughter bound to her mother cooks what she cannot say, during the revolution.Cinema
Feature filmExcess BaggageEl bultoGabriel Retes · 1992A photographer comes out of a twenty-year coma and discovers what has become of his family, his comrades and the left.Cinema
Feature filmAngel of FireÁngel de fuegoDana Rotberg · 1992A circus child, pregnant by her father, joins a troupe of street preachers.Cinema
Feature filmCronosGuillermo del Toro · 1993An antique dealer finds an alchemist's mechanism that promises eternity, and others covet it.Cinema
Feature filmMiroslavaAlejandro Pelayo · 1993The night of a star of Mexican cinema who came from Prague, overtaken by her memories.Cinema
Feature filmAll of Them WitchesSobrenaturalDaniel Gruener · 1996After a crime in her building, a woman begins to suspect her own husband, then the devil.Cinema
Feature filmUn embrujoCarlos Carrera · 1998A boy from Yucatán secretly loves his schoolteacher, then never stops remembering her.Cinema