| Description |
401 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note(S) |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Contents |
Memory -- Writing -- Readings -- Ending. |
| Summary |
The debut work in English by Mexico's winner of the Cervantes Prize, The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as an author, translator, scholar, and diplomat. The first work in Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," The Art of Flight blends the genres of fiction and memoir in a Borgesian swirl of contemplation and mystery, expanding our understanding and appreciation of what literature can be and what it can do. |
| Subject(S) |
Mexican literature -- Biography.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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Biographies.
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| Added Name(S) |
Henson, George, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781941920060 (paperback) |
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1941920063 (paperback) |
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