Name: The Journey
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Author: Sergio Pitol
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

20.8x13.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781941920183

Synopsis "The Journey "

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.

Sergio Pitol

(Author)

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Sergio Pitol (1933-2018) studied Law and Philosophy in Mexico City. He is recognized for his intellectual career, both in the field of literary creation and in the promotion of culture, especially in the preservation and promotion of Mexican artistic and historical heritage abroad. He has lived perpetually on the run, was a student in Rome, a translator in Beijing and Barcelona, a university professor in Xalapa and Bristol, and a diplomat in Warsaw, Budapest, Paris, Moscow, and Prague. Awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1999 and the Cervantes Prize in 2005, for his body of work.

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Álvaro Enrigue

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(Mexico, 1969) He was a fellow at the Cullman Center and a member of the Latin American Studies Program at Princeton University. He has taught at New York University, Princeton University, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The White Review, n+1, London Review of Books, El País, among others. He has won the Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Prize in Mexico, and the Barcelona Fiction Prize and has been translated into many languages.

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