The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

  “For the clearing up of some knotty chronology, and some material on the life of Lizardi, I owe thanks to Dr. Rea Jefferson Spell, whose doctoral thesis, The Life and Works of José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, was published by the University of Pennsylvania in 1931. Notes for a Biography of the Mexican Thinker, now used as a preface to the Barcelona edition, was written in the early 1840s by an anonymous author who contributes refreshing partisanship, indignation, and sympathy to his subject, but it is a little difficult to find one’s way around in.

  “The first and best authority on the life of Lizardi is Don Luis González Obregón, distinguished Mexican critic and historian of literature, who wrote his first study of Lizardi as long ago as 1888. [Published by Oficias Tipografica de la Seretararía de Fomento, 1888.] Through his original researches he aroused interest in the almost lost history of Mexico’s unique novelist of manners and speech, and later studies have clarified some points and disposed of others for good. To Don Luis I offer my special thanks and acknowledgments.”

  945.22 Morelos] José María Morelos (1765–1815), Roman Catholic priest turned leader of the Mexican War of Independence. He was captured by the Spanish in 1815 and executed by firing squad near Mexico City.

  945.32 Mexico] Mexico City.

  946.12–13 Hidalgo] Miguel Hidalgo (1753–1811), revolutionary Roman Catholic priest known as the father of the Mexican independence movement.

  946.14 Philip VII] It was Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), not Philip VII, who was King of Spain, from 1813 until 1833, after a brief ascension in 1808 when the emperor Napoleon forced him to abdicate and imprisoned him in France for seven years.

  947.2 Aldama, Jimínez, and Allende] Juan Aldama, José Mariano Jimínez, and Ignacio Allende, fellow revolutionaries with Miguel Hidalgo.

  951.9 Bustamante] Carlos María Bustamante (1774–1848), publisher and lawyer who worked vigorously for Mexican independence and afterward to block a Mexican monarchy.

  953.22 Calleja] Félix María Calleja (1753–1828), viceroy of New Spain, 1813–16.

  955.35–37 Blanchard. . . education.”] Jean-Baptiste Blanchard (1731–1797) revised the theories on “natural” education that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) presented in Émile, ou l‘education (1762).

  956.5 Dr. Beristain] José Mariano Beristain (1756–1817), scholar, critic, and bibliographer of Spanish literature in the New World.

  956.11–12 Torres Villaroel] Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693–1770), Spanish poet, playwright, and professor.

  956.13–14 Guzman de Alfarache] Hero of Guzmán de Alfarache (1599–1604), picaresque novel by Mateo Alemán y de Enero (1547–1614).

  966.25 Gil Blas] Hero of Histoire de Gil Blas (1715–47), picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747).

  966.25–26 Peregrine. . . Jones] The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) were written by Tobias Smollett (1721–1771); The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1729) was written by Henry Fielding (1707–1754).

  974.8 Fantasies”] Fantastics and Other Fancies (1914) by Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), posthumous collection of stories and sketches from New Orleans newspapers.

  974.21 The Cabin”] La Barraca (1898), social novel set among the poor and oppressed of the Valencia countryside, by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928).

  978.10 Mr. Saenz] Moisés Sáenz (1888–1941), educator, diplomat, and Mexican ambassador to Peru, was Porter’s friend in 1920–31.

  978.40 Mr. Priestley’s] Herbert Ingram Priestley (1875–1944), longtime professor of Latin American history at the University of California.

  983.37 Nous. . . Gasconne!”] “We are the children of Gascogne!”, a French song of resistance of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453).

  988.4 Miss Brenner] Anita Brenner (1905–1974), born in Mexico and raised and educated in the United States, wrote several books and many essays on Mexican art, culture, and history.

  988.10–11 Tina. . . Weston] Tina Modotti (1876–1942), Italian actress, political activist, and photographer, met Edward Henry Weston (1886–1958) in 1918 and became his favorite model as well as his lover.

  988.30–31 Syndicate. . . Sculptors] Guild of muralists, led by Diego Rivera.

  990.9 Siquieros] David Alfaro Siquieros (1896–1974), Mexican muralist.

  990.13 Jean Charlot] Charlot (1898–1976), French painter and muralist who spent most of his working life in Mexico.

  990.14 Merida] Muralist Carlos Mérida (1891–1984), one of the founders of the Syndicate.

  990.15 Dr. Atl] Mexican nature artist Gerardo Murillo (1876–1964) called himself “Dr. Atl” to signify his sympathy with the indigenest movement.

  990.30–31 Orozco. . . Abraham Angel] José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949), Mexican muralist; Abraham Ángel, Mexican painter (1905–1924) celebrated for his primitive style.

  990.33 Xavier Guerrero] Painter and engraver (1896–1974); co-founder, with Siquieros, of El Machete, the official organ of the Syndicate.

  993.7 Academy] The Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1785 in Mexico City.

  995.23 Preparatoria] Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (National Preparatory School) in Mexico City, where Diego Rivera and other artists were commissioned in 1921 by José Vasconcelos, then minister of education, to decorate the schools; marked the beginning of the Mural movement.

  997.19 Carmen] Title character of the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet (1838–1875).

  998.4 Mr. Morrow’s town] Dwight W. Morrow (1873–1931), American ambassador to Mexico in 1927–30, built a weekend house in Cuernavaca and filled it with Mexican artifacts.

  1000.4 Carleton Beals] Beals (1893–1945), Latin American correspondent for The Nation and author of dozens of works on revolution in Mexico and Central America.

  1004.26 Archbishop Pascual Diaz] Pascual Díaz y Barreto (1876–1936), Archbishop of Mexico City in 1929–36, was often at odds with anticlerical Mexican administrations.

  1007.6 1894] Porter, given to falsifying her age, was born in 1890, not 1894.

  1010.1 The Land That Is Nowhere] See the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (sixth century B.C.): “The long journey ends at the land that is Nowhere, that is the true home.”

  1010.3 a certain critic] Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989).

  1010.8–9 newspaper. . . prints] Cowley referred to Porter’s early career as a “writer for several newspapers” in the second edition of his memoir Exile‘s Return (1934; revised 1951).

  1011.15 Natalie Scott] Natalie Vivian Scott (1890–1957), American journalist, playwright, social worker, and university professor, was part of the artists’ colony in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the 1920s and of the expatriate colony in Mexico in the 1930s.

  1011.16–17 William Spratling] American professor and silversmith (1900–1967) who copied pre-Colombian designs.

  1011.24 Janice Biala] Polish-born American painter (1903–2000) who lived with Ford in the 1930s in France and the United States.

  1013.24–27 E. M. . . . idea’.”] See “Joseph Conrad: A Note” (1920), in Abinger Harvest (1936).

  Index

  A | B | C | D | E

  F | G | H | I | J

  K | L | M | N | O

  P | Q | R | S | T

  U | V | W | X | Y | Z

  Abélard, Pierre, 1014

  Acapulco, Mexico, 962, 970, 998

  Adams, Charles Francis, 689

  Adams, Henry, 689

  African Americans, 722, 726, 736–37, 750, 756, 781

  African slaves, 963

  Aguilar, Cándido, 899

  Albany, N.Y., 524–26

  Aldama, Juan, 947

  Aldington, Richard, 576

  Alembert, Jean d’, 945

  Alexandria, Va., 781

  Allende, Ignacio, 947

  American Women’s Club, Paris, 685n

  Americans, 554–55, 557, 562, 565, 573, 580, 687–91, 702–3, 706–8, 789, 870

  AMTORG trading corporation, 841

  Anarchis
m, 832–33, 864–65

  Anderson, Sherwood, 550, 689

  Ángel, Abraham, 990

  Arber, Edward, 1014

  Argentina, 708

  Arizona, 548

  Arnold, Benedict, 783

  Astor, John Jacob, 524

  Atl, Dr. (Gerardo Murillo), 990

  Atlantic Monthly, 571, 585

  Atomic bomb, 824, 828–29

  Audubon, John James, 743, 756, 758–59, 764

  Augustine, Saint, 647, 813, 818–19; Confessions, 811, 1014

  Auld, Jessica Cather, 541–42

  Austen, Jane, 611–12, 709; Mansfield Park, 1014

  Austin, Texas, 1015

  Authors Today and Yesterday, 1007

  Aztecs, 614, 875, 884–85, 887, 889, 909, 924, 988

  Baja California, 905

  Baltimore, Md., 565, 674

  Balzac, Honoré de, 549

  Barcelona, Spain, 965

  Baron, Rosa, 831, 838–39, 850, 856, 863

  Bartók, Béla, 544

  Barzun, Jacques, 624

  Basel, Switzerland, 721, 725, 995, 1008, 1012

  Bass, Sam, 738, 742

  Baton Rouge, La., 757

  Beach, Sylvia, 672–78

  Beals, Carleton: The Stones Awake, 1000–1

  Bean, Roy, 740

  Beatty, Bessie, 837

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 549

  Belgium, 721, 776

  Benda, Julien, 608

  Benedict XIV, 959

  Béranger, Pierre-Jean de, 779

  Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 542

  Beristain, José Mariano, 956, 966

  Berlin, Germany, 835n, 1008, 1012

  Bermuda, 721, 781, 1008

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 1016

  Best-Maugard, Adolfo, 909, 990

  Biala, Janice, 1011

  Bible, 541, 549, 959

  Bilignin, France, 572

  Blanchard, Abbé, 955

  Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente: Mexico in Revolution, 974–77

  Blood, Benjamin Paul, 539

  Blum, Léon, 569

  Boehme, Jacob, 555

  Bolshevism, 894

  Bonaparte, Josephine, 779

  Books Abroad, 707

  Boone, Daniel, 1009

  Boston, Mass., 524–26, 620, 831, 835–36, 840–63

  Boswell, James, 576; The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1014

  Boulder, Col., 809

  Boxer Rebellion, 836

  Boyle, Kay, 997

  Brady, Mathew, 529–30

  Braque, Georges, 569

  Breit, Harvey, 623–24

  Brenner, Anita: Idols behind Altars, 987–92; The Wind that Swept Mexico, 1002–4

  Breton, André, 569

  Brinnin, John Malcolm: Dylan Thomas in America, 651–53

  Britain, 526, 528–29, 590, 597, 601, 607, 642, 708, 757, 771–72, 893, 904, 981–82, 1002, 1011

  Brontë, Emily, 611, 709; Wuthering Heights, 1014

  Brown, E. K.: Willa Cather, 551

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 797–98

  Browning, Robert, 797–98

  Bruegel, Pieter: “The Fall of Icarus,” 691–92

  Bryher (Annie Winnifred Ellerman), 675

  Budapest, Hungary, 709

  Bullfighting, 811, 813–19

  Bullitt, William, 838

  Bustamante, Carlos María, 951–52

  Butler, E. M.: Rainer Maria Rilke, 666

  Byron, George Gordon, 590

  Caldwell, Erskine: Tobacco Road, 785

  California, 624

  Calleja, Félix María, 952–53, 957

  Calles, Plutarco, 895, 903

  Campeche, 893

  Canada, 820

  Cantú, Esteban, 905

  Capmany, Rafael Zubarán, 903

  Capone, Al, 830

  Cárdenas, Lázaro, 995

  Carranza, Venustiano, 872–73, 898–901, 903–4, 906, 936, 974–76, 981, 983, 990

  Carillo, Felipe, 864, 873, 906–7, 1003

  Carlyle, Jane, 576

  Carlyle, Thomas, 523

  Cather, Willa, 540–52; Alexander’s Bridge, 547–48; Death Comes for the Archbishop, 543, 549; “A Death in the Desert,” 551; “The Diamond Mine,” 547; A Lost Lady, 547; My Ántonia, 543; O Pioneers! 543, 548; Obscure Destinies, 543; “Paul’s Case,” 547, 551; The Song of the Lark, 543; The Troll Garden, 547, 551–52; Youth and the Bright Medusa, 543

  Catholics, 579, 736–37, 879, 893–94, 896–97, 906, 941, 943–44, 957, 959–63, 988, 1002

  Century, 715, 869, 1008

  Cervantes, Miguel de, 972

  Charles X, 779

  Charlot, Jean, 990, 992

  Chase, Marian Tyler, 859, 997

  Chase, Stuart: Mexico, 997–99

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 628

  Chekhov, Anton, 550, 671, 689

  Chicago, Ill., 977, 1008

  China, 579, 836, 929

  Christianity, 579, 599–601, 604, 640, 723, 743, 745, 766, 768, 842, 847, 879, 884, 909, 946, 955, 959, 1010

  Circe, 799–807

  Civil War, U.S., 566, 570, 723, 745

  Clement XII, 959

  Cocteau, Jean, 558, 562, 632

  Cody, William F., 689

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 605

  Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle, 661–63

  Communism, 570, 607–8, 832, 835–37, 839–40, 842, 852–53, 856–57, 894, 990, 996

  Concentration camps, 542, 829

  Connolly, Cyril, 611

  Conrad, Joseph, 543, 1013

  Constitution, U.S., 821

  Constitutionalists (Mexico), 948, 956

  Coolidge, Calvin, 986–87

  Corelli, Marie (Mary Mackay), 576

  Cortés, Hernán, 881, 884, 891, 996

  Council of Cádiz, 946, 948, 950–51

  Courbet, Gustave, 549

  Covarrubias, Miguel: The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans, 985–87

  Crane, Hart, 575

  Crane, Stephen, 548, 689, 703

  Crauford, John, 594

  Creoles, 943, 954, 963

  Crowe, Helen O’Lochlainn, 842, 845, 855

  Crusades, 766–67

  Cummings, E. E., 562

  Cummins, H.A.C., 981

  Czechoslovakia, 836

  Dali, Salvador, 562, 569

  Dante Alighieri, 549, 583, 628, 672, 692, 709, 774, 1014

  Darwin, Charles, 600

  David, Jacques-Louis, 778

  Democracy, 573, 609, 820–22, 832, 874, 944

  Democratic Party, 836

  Dempsey, Jack, 987

  Denver, Col., 1008, 1010

  Diamond Lil, 742

  Díaz, Pascual, 1004

  Díaz, Porfirio, 876, 976, 980

  Díaz Soto y Gama, Antonio, 873

  Dickens, Charles, 527

  Dickinson, Emily, 703, 709

  Diderot, Denis, 945

  Diego, Juan, 879–81, 883

  Doheny, Edward, 904–5

  Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), 576

  Dos Passos, John, 689, 842, 848–49, 859

  Dostoevsky, Feodor, 583, 599, 689; The House of the Dead, 1015; The Possessed, 686

  Douglas, Clifford Hugh, 580

  Draper, Elizabeth, 590, 593–94

  Dreiser, Theodore, 550

  Dumas, Alexandre, fils, 1015; Camille, 1016

  Durant, Kenneth, 841–42

  Dürer, Albrecht, 692, 938

  Edward VII, 741

  Ehrmann, Herbert B., 847, 863

  Einstein, Albert, 572

  El Paso, Texas, 740–41

  Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 564

  Eliot, T. S., 575, 578, 596–99, 602–4, 612, 672, 1015; “Little Gidding,” 774; The Waste Land, 603

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 527, 687, 689

  Enciso, Jorge, 909

  Encyclopedists, 599, 826–27

  Episcopalians, 737

  Erasmus, Desiderius, 599, 725, 946; The Praise of Folly, 1014

  Erskine, Albert, 585
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  Evans, Ernestine, 580

  Evans, Harry, 980–81

  Evans, Rosalie Caden, 980–85

  Fadiman, Clifton: This Is My Best, 716

  Fall, Albert B., 903

  Fascism, 570, 607, 820, 832

  Federalists (Mexico), 960, 962

  Ferdinand VII, 954

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 675

  Flanders, 776

  Flaubert, Gustave, 541, 549–50, 599, 719, 1015; Madame Bovary, 686

  Flores (inquisitor), 955

  Ford, Ford Madox (Ford Hueffer), 563, 585–86, 669–70, 672, 675, 1011; The Good Soldier, 670

  Forster, E. M., 603, 607–9, 611–12, 709, 784, 1013, 1015; Abinger Harvest, 607–9; A Passage to India, 607; Two Cheers for Democracy, 607, 609

  Fourmentelle, Catherine, 590

  France, 527–29, 560–61, 569, 572, 590, 593, 607, 661–62, 711, 717n, 721, 756–57, 775–81, 825, 836, 893, 944, 959, 961, 1003, 1011

  France, Anatole, 909

  Francis, Saint, 599–600, 756, 759

  Franco, Francisco, 570, 836, 847

  Frank, Anne, 542

  Frankfurter, Felix, 848

  Frederick Augustus (Duke of York), 593

  Freemasons, 959–60

  French Revolution, 777, 944

  Freud, Sigmund, 540, 549, 611, 659, 856

  Fuller, Margaret, 527

  Fuller, Alvan T., 833, 852

  Galván, Amado, 991

  Gamio, Manuel, 909, 990; Aspects of Mexican Civilization, 977–80

  Garrick, David, 590, 593–94

  Gazette, 962

  Geismar, Maxwell: The Last of the Provincials, 550

  Geneva, Switzerland, 526, 536

  Gérard, François, 775, 779

  Germany, 528–29, 560, 569, 572–73, 666, 707–8, 721, 831, 835n, 836, 994

  Gide, André, 550, 662

  Gil, Gabriel, 949, 951

  Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 549

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 549

  Gold, Michael, 842–43, 855–57

  Golden Legend, The, 549

  Goldman, Emma, 865–66

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 593

  Góngora, Luis de, 972

  Gonzales, Pablo, 905, 907