Debo, luego sufro - Softcover

Loeaza, Guadalupe; Loaeza, Guadalupe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9706514643 ISBN 13: 9789706514646

Publisher: Oceano De Mexico, 2000

Synopsis

Sofâia, an upper-class Mexican woman who dreads the twenty-fourth of each month, when she gets her American Express bill, and her friends find themselves locked in a pattern of compulsive spending and everlasting debt.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

The glee of shopping, followed by the anxious turmoil of having put oneself in debt, makes up the vicious cycle that is at the core of Mexican novelist Loaeza's latest book. A sequel to Compro, luego existo (I Buy, Therefore I Exist, Alianza), this book is part of a larger project funded by a Mexican federal program for the consumer (PROFECO) to educate the public about the dangers of spending beyond their means. In short, the drama revolves around four upper-class Mexican couples and their families, showing the public what not to become: compulsive shoppers. On the surface, the text indulges in elitism as it presents the Mexican bourgeoisie as a tragic victim of its own privilege. Running deeper, however, is a clever expos? of the dysfunctions and insecurities that actually plague it, such as drug abuse, bulimia , infidelity, and the need to keep up social appearances. Ultimately, the novel falls short of its instructive and parodic intents because the upper classes are pardoned in the end they are, after all, gente buena, people of good upbringing. One must be patient to endure the excessive descriptions of commodities and consumption and get to the few pages that critique the hypocrisy and shortsightedness of the characters and their gluttonous lifestyles. An optional purchase for public libraries. Silvia Heredia, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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About this edition

• Publisher: Oceano De Mexico
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9706514643
• ISBN 13: 9789706514646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 341