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The Art of Flight

Book information

Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
9781941920077, 1941920071
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
514 kB (525967 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
v, 401 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

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.;Memory -- Writing -- Readings -- Ending.

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