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Rodriguez portrays Mexico and the United States as moral rivals for California. Tragic Mexico and the comedic United States, ironically, have traded roles by the end of the twentieth century. Rodriguez's ferocious essays are no more regional than were Montaigne's. His play of ideas and incident, the scope of these essays, becomes a spiritual autobiography.
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"Luminous…[Rodriguez's] insights, irony and descriptions make the writing richly evocative."
Publishers Weekly
"Days of Obligation looks into America-north and south of the Rio Grande-as penetratingly and eloquently as Camus did when he compared the mental landscapes of France and Algiers."
Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The best American essayist as far as I'm concerned…[Rodriguez] doesn't kowtow to political correctness. He shuns the pack, rides alone. He writes a lonely line of individualism, the grandeur and grief of the American soul."
Village Voice