Name: The Journey (in English)
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Author: Álvaro Enrigue
ISBN: 9781941920183

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sergio Pitol

Introduction by

Álvaro Enrigue

Translated by

George Henson

Publisher

Deep Vellum Publishing

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781941920183

Synopsis "The Journey (in English)"

Reading Pitol, one has the impression of being before the greatest writer in the Spanish language in our time.-- Enrique Vila-MatasThe Journey features one of the world's master storytellers at work as he skillfully recounts two weeks of travel around the Soviet Union in 1986. From the first paragraph, Sergio Pitol dislocates the sense of reality, masterfully and playfully blurring the lines between fiction and fact.This adventurous story, based on the author's own travel journals, parades through some of the territories that the author lived in and traveled through (Prague, the Caucasus, Moscow, Leningrad) as he reflects on the impact of Russia's sacred literary pantheon in his life and the power that literature holds over us all.The Journey, the second work in Pitol's remarkable Trilogy of Memory (which Deep Vellum is publishing in its entirety), which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize in 2005 and inspired the newest generation of Spanish-language writers, represents the perfect example of one of the world's greatest authors at the peak of his power.

Álvaro Enrigue

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(México, 1969) Fue becario del Centro Cullman y miembro del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Princeton. Ha enseñado en la Universidad de Nueva York, la Universidad de Princeton, la Universidad de Maryland y la Universidad de Columbia. Su trabajo ha aparecido en The New York Times, The Believer, The White Review, n+1, London Review of Books, El País, entre otros. Ha ganado el Premio Herralde en España, el Premio Internacional de Novela Elena Poniatowska en México y el Premio Barcelona de Ficción y ha sido traducida a muchos idiomas.

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