The art of flight /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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Dallas, Texas :
Deep Vellum Publishing,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | v, 401 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-401). |
| ISBN: | 1941920063 (paperback) 9781941920060 (paperback) |