With five texts that are somewhere between the newspaper, the essay and story, and a conversation with Carlos Monsivais Sergio Pitol built underground An autobiography that just published Anagrama . Subtitled Additions, corrections, irreverent , is the latest book by Sergio Pitol, he closes with a long literary career that over half a century has left memorable works as The Art of Fugue or The Wizard of Vienna.
And memory and literature is essentially the autobiography that is also a reflection on the art of the story, an evocation of his reading training and personal experiences from his travels and memories. A powerful light on his life and literature and a series of reflections to assist the reader as a privileged witness. This autobiography underground is the living and literary Pitol, leaving here clauses like this: Writing has been my (...) leave a personal testimony of the constantly changing world.
And memory and literature is essentially the autobiography that is also a reflection on the art of the story, an evocation of his reading training and personal experiences from his travels and memories. A powerful light on his life and literature and a series of reflections to assist the reader as a privileged witness. This autobiography underground is the living and literary Pitol, leaving here clauses like this: Writing has been my (...) leave a personal testimony of the constantly changing world.
Hammerstein or tenacity is the other notable new feature this month in Anagram. Its author, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, who is one of the authors invited to the Madrid Book Fair and will be at the closing, this book offers a brilliant display of documentary literature, halfway between biography, essay and fiction . takes as its starting point the biography of Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, the general who commanded the German army from 1930 until the triumph of Hitler in 1933 draft, but goes beyond to further biographical account explaining the historical keys twelve years of terror in Nazi Germany and is also a reflection on the historical and cultural identity of Europe. Between reality and fiction, between documentary analysis and reconstruction novel, Hammerstein or tenacity is also written with the proven talent and the usual narrative intellectual acumen of one of the great writers of the Europe today.
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