by Elena Poniatowska · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432229237
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«Dos veces única» is the novel by Elena Poniatowska published by Seix Barral in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Poniatowska reconstructs the life of María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, Lupe Marín (1895-1983), muse and wife of Diego Rivera and later of the poet Jorge Cuesta. A witness to the artistic scene of twentieth-century Mexico, she associated with Frida Kahlo, Xavier Villaurrutia and Juan Soriano, and her character influenced her children and grandchildren.
The book belongs to Seix Barral’s Biblioteca Breve collection and was published in 2016. It consists of 416 pages and includes bibliographic references.
For those who enjoy novelized biographies, Elena Poniatowska’s narrative, and the portrait of the artistic Mexico of the twentieth century.
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska, is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents. Her mother's family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape World War II. When she was 18, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers and both fiction and nonfiction books. Her best-known work is La noche de Tlatelolco: Testimonios de historia oral, about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her left-wing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
