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In this book of essays that at times points out essential details, and at times details them, runs over them, and returns to give us a full view of of two great literary constructions, Ignacio Padilla invites us to reevaluate the chief contributions of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Addressing five rare angles, one of the best Mexican writers of the “Crack” generation studies with passion, knowledge, and an enormous... - Read more

Since the publication in 1996 of “The Art of the Fugue”, Sergio Pitol’s collection of essays have become a gallery of images that, in the manner of the great Gothic stainglass windows, reveal in the sum of its fragments the story of a vocation, the patient accumulation of frontiers that ensure a distinctive style. Inventory of intuitions and reminiscences, of obsessions and phobias, this book is proof of a life strewn and... - Read more

This book collects different reflections on literary invention which are the result of the author's experience as reader and narrator. The first part offers a general vision of the subjects treated, through texts, many of them unpublished, that the author wrote for readings and lectures. In the second part he analyzes specific literary works in essays and articles appeared partially in different periodicals. Continuous Fiction covers subjects... - Read more

Reading, like dreaming, is an act of hypnosis. Captivated by a great book, we feel that while the reading lasts, its fictions are true. Just as in a dream, a great literary work takes elements of reality for its imaginary constructions. Only when we awaken or stop reading, do we realize that the world that appeared so close and intense, was a creation. In this book, Alonso Cueto writes about the lives and works of some the writers we all... - Read more

  The Art of Flight , originally published in 1997, is the first novel in Sergio Pitol’s “Trilogy of Memory,” a collection of essays and stories that blends the genres of memoir and creative essay in an imaginative swirl of reflection and contemplation.From the 1960s through the 1990s Pitol worked as a cultural atta-ché in Mexican embassies throughout the world, and served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia. An... - Read more