Juan Villoro
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Horizontal Vertigo: the title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flâneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while brilliantly drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, prize-winning collection of stories by Mexico's most important living writer. From the semiotics of pet iguanas to the disillusionment of mariachi singers, Villoro reveals the deep dissatisfactions and absurdities of life in Mexico and its carnivalesque capital.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Los culpables es el mejor libro de cuentos de Juan Villoro y el mas arriesgado. Luego de aficionarnos a un estilo original y fulminante, Villoro renueva su prosa a fin de explorar distintos registros orales de los impredecibles y complejos sujetos que pueden ser los mexicanos. El lector no encontrara relatos mas estimulantes que estos, dueños de una gran velocidad de despegue, donde las turbulencias son calculadas a fin de aumentar la emocion. Una...
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