Лучшие книги Серхио Питоля

Colección de artículos y trabajos sobre la memoria, la escritura y la lectura, en los que Sergio Pitol demuestra su amplia cultura y sus viajes e inquietudes de escritor y lector, que busca descubrirse a sí mismo en los textos de los demás. Sorprende el vasto culturalismo de este escritor mexicano que uno pensaría más anclado en sus particularidades nacionales o…

The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language.

"Sergio Pitol is not only our best active storyteller, he is also the bravest renovator of our literature."—Álvaro Enrigue in Letras Libres "Pitol is probably one of Mexico's most culturally complex and composite writers. He is certainly the strangest, most unfathomable, and eccentric. . . . [His] voice . . . reverberates beyond the margins of his books."—Valeria Luiselli, author of Faces in the Crowd "Reading him, one has the impression . . . of being before the greatest writer in the Spanish language in our time."—Enrique Vila-Matas The 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.

Named a «Best Untranslated Writer» by Granta Winner of the most prestigious Spanish-language award in the world, the Cervantes Prize (in 2005) Author is a major influence on the contemporary generation of Latin American authors such as Roberto Bola?o, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Valeria Luiselli