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The Magician of Vienna (Paperback)
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The Magician of Vienna (Paperback)
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List price R449
Loot Price R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
You Save R71 (16%)
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"We can read The Magician of Vienna not just as a work of
literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store
humanity's imaginary." -- Mario Bellatin, author of Beauty Salon
The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking
memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid "Trilogy of Memory" finds Pitol boldly
and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell
of his life lived through literature as a way to stave off the
advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to
lose the use of language. Fiction invades autobiography--and vice
versa--as Pitol writes to forestall the advancement of degenerative
memory loss. "Pitol's writing -- the way he constructs sentences,
inflects Spanish, twists meanings and stresses particular words --
reflects the multiplicity of languages he has read and embraced.
Reading him is like reading through the layers of many languages at
once." -- Valeria Luiselli, author of The Story of My Teeth Sergio
Pitol, the greatest living Mexican writer, winner of the Juan Rulfo
and Cervantes prizes, is profoundly influential to the current
generation of Spanish-language writers, including Valeria Luiselli,
Enrique Vila-Matas, and Yuri Herrera.
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