Oficio de Tinieblas Tapa blanda - 1998

Born in Mexico City in 1925, Rosario Castellanos spent much of her childhood in Comitán, in Mayan southern Mexico. After traveling to Europe and to the United States for advanced study in aesthetics, she returned to the province of Chiapas to work with Indian theater groups and the Indigenous Institute of San Cristóbal. Much of her work, even throughout her involvement with the literary group "The Generation of the '50s," tried to traverse the distance between the pre-Columbian and the European cultural traditions of Mexico. While serving as Mexican ambassador to Israel, Castellanos died in a freak household accident in Tel Aviv. In an irony she might have enjoyed, she was buried in the rotunda of Illustrious Men, in Mexico City.

Rosario Castellanos naci en la ciudad de Mxico en 1925 y creci en el rancho de su familia, situado cerca de la frontera con Guatemala y, posteriormente, en Comitan, Chiapas, escenario de muchas de sus obras de ficcin, incluyendo la coleccin de historias cortas, Ciudad Real, y dos novelas. Tras realizar estudios de postgrado en la Universidad de Madrid, regres a Mxico donde trabaj comodirectora del programa cultural de Chiapas, una experienca que la puso en contacto don los indgenas y la cultura de la regin. Considerara como una de las pocas mujeres miembros de la intelectualidad mexicana en los aos posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Rosario Castellanos ocup la catedra de literatura latinoamericana ed distinas universidades alrededor del mundo al tiempo que continu su prolfica carerra literaria, publicando obras en practicamente todos los gneros. Justo antes de escribir Oficio de Tinieblas, regres a la regin y pas all tres aos como directora de una compaa itinerante de guiol. Con posterioridad, ocup el puesto de embajadora de Mxico en Israel, donde pereci a la causa de un accidente en 1974.

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Born in Mexico City in 1925, Rosario Castellanos spent much of her childhood in Comitn, in Mayan southern Mexico. After traveling to Europe and to the United States for advanced study in aesthetics, she returned to the province of Chiapas to work with Indian theater groups and the Indigenous Institute of San Cristbal. Much of her work, even throughout her involvement with the literary group "The Generation of the '50s," tried to traverse the distance between the pre-Columbian and the European cultural traditions of Mexico. While serving as Mexican ambassador to Israel, Castellanos died in a freak household accident in Tel Aviv. In an irony she might have enjoyed, she was buried in the rotunda of Illustrious Men, in Mexico City.