The Mangy Parrot, Abridged

Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi¹s experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel the first to be published in Latin America after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of Th...