Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.'Īs a Hispanic, I cannot believe that I hadn't read *Bless Me, Ultima* earlier.

I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. 'I've always used the technique of the cuento. With the publication of his novel, Albuquerque (1992),Newsweek has proclaimed him a front-runner in 'what is better called not the new multicultural writing, but the new American writing.' His most recent volume, published in 1995, is Zia Summer. His works are standard texts in Chicano studies and literature courses around the world, and he has done more than perhaps any other single person to promote publication of books by Hispanic authors in this country.

According to the New York Times, he is the most widely read author in Hispanic communities, and sales of his classic Bless Me, Ultima (1972) have surpassed 360,000, despite the fact that none of his books have been published originally by New York publishing houses. Rudolfo Anaya is widely acclaimed as the founder of modern Chicano literature. Anaya, however, is a native Hispanic fascinated by cultural crossings unique to the Southwest, a combination of oldSpain and New Spain, of Mexico with Mesoamerica and the anglicizing forces of the twentieth century. It is a powerful force, full of magic and myth, integral to his writings. Rudolfo Anaya lives and breathes the landscape of the Southwest.

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