THE CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ – Autobiography of a Mexican Family by Oscar LEWIS

THE CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ – Autobiography of a Mexican Family by Oscar LEWIS - Translated from English by Céline Zins - Éditions Gallimard (5 rue Gaston-Gallimard, Paris) - 1981 - 638 pages - Paperback. A deeply moving work where violence, suffering, and cruelty coexist with kindness, courage, and cheerfulness. Through its spontaneous vision of a certain milieu in Mexico City, and its accuracy, this scientific work, of great literary quality, has undoubtedly inaugurated the era of the 'true-story novel'. Oscar Lewis wanted to tell the story of a family belonging to the contemporary Mexican under-proletariat: he talked for months with each member of the Sanchez family and, to record their words, used a tape recorder hidden in his clothes.