Zapata

Zapata

John Steinbeck, 1902-1968

Book - 1993

"Presents John Steinbeck's original narrative of the life of Emiliano Zapata, champion of the peasants during the Mexican Revolution, and features the award-winning screenplay for 'Viva, Zapata!' a film based on the narrative, with notes by director Elia Kazan."

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Subjects
Zapata, Emiliano, > 1879-1919 > Drama.
Published
New York : Penguin 1993.
Language
English
Main Author
John Steinbeck, 1902-1968 (-)
Other Authors
Robert Eustis Morsberger, 1929- (-)
Physical Description
xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369).
Filmography: pages 361-365.
ISBN
9780140173222
  • Preface
  • Part One: Zapata: A Narrative in Dramatic Form
  • Part Two: Viva Zapata!
  • Appendix.
Review by Library Journal Review

Steinbeck was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 for his screenplay, Viva Zapata! The film, based on the life of Mexican peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, stars Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, and Jean Peters and is the only original work Steinbeck wrote for the screen. The original story upon which Steinbeck based his script was recently uncovered in a UCLA research library. The two versions are presented together here, and they complement each other well. The original story is more of a preliminary treatment and differs substantially from the screenplay. Steinbeck, who was fluent in Spanish, spent years in research, collecting oral histories from Zapata's contemporaries and veterans of the revolution and obtaining information not available in any other written record. His screenplay is superb drama on its own and is enriched by the historical framework. Recommended for academic libraries and large film collections.-- Marianne Cawley, Kingwood Branch Lib., Tex. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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