The Magician of Vienna

Sergio Pitol

The Magician of Vienna
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Country
United States
Published
26 April 2017
Pages
320
ISBN
9781941920480

The Magician of Vienna

Sergio Pitol

We can read The Magician of Vienna not just as a work of literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store humanity’s imaginary. - Mario Bellatin, author of Beauty Salon

The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol’s groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through literature as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language. Fiction invades autobiography-and vice versa-as Pitol writes to forestall the advancement of degenerative memory loss.

Pitol’s writing - the way he constructs sentences, inflects Spanish, twists meanings and stresses particular words - reflects the multiplicity of languages he has read and embraced. Reading him is like reading through the layers of many languages at once. - Valeria Luiselli, author of The Story of My Teeth

Sergio Pitol, the greatest living Mexican writer, winner of the Juan Rulfo and Cervantes prizes, is profoundly influential to the current generation of Spanish-language writers, including Valeria Luiselli, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Yuri Herrera.

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