Coronada de moscas Crowned with Flies Margo Glantz Alina López Cámara, photography “Margo Glantz achieves something I consider both difficult and admirable: inserting knowledge in the knitting of a book in a most natural manner, without it being ballasting or feels that way. It reaches a perfect equilibrium between a fictional essayistic tone and an elegantly fictionalized essay, in an admirable manner, not only in Mexican literature, but also in prose in Spanish wherever it may be written” Misery and beauty walk hand in hand in the streets of India. Such contradiction feeds the entries of this log, placed between storytelling and essay; it evokes the steps of an untiring traveler through trash and beggars ridden paths, along with smiling children and sad eyed women, with a grandiose but devastated architecture raised in the dust. Along the texts, Alina López Camara’s photographs illustrate the reality of this contrasting world, puzzling and terrible, unfolded before our eyes in the pages of Coronada de moscas. FALTA LIBRO 52 www.libros.unam.mx Arts José Manuel Prieto • Margo Glantz is one of the most important writers in the panorama of present national literature. • These pages are filled with great narrative strength. • Image and text complete each other in great harmony. About the author Margo Glantz (Mexico City, 1930) is an essayist and a writer, one of the most distinguished figures in the current literary panorama of Spanish speaking America. Her vast work has been acknowledged, among many others, with the Xavier Villaurrutia, the National Arts and Sciences and the Romance Languages awards. Among her vast work, the following outstand: Síndrome de Naufragios, Borrones y Borradores: Essays on Colonial Literature, El Rastro and Las Genealogías. Author’s Awards Council for Humanities Fellow, Princeton, Estados Unidos, 1994 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz University Merit Medal, 2005 Bellas Artes Golden Medal, 2010 Honoris Causa Doctorate by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2011 Carlos Monsiváis Cultural Merit in Mexico City Award, 2012 Readership • Journal readers • Contemporary Mexican literature readers • Followers of the work of Margo Glantz 1st edition: unam, Mexico/ Ediciones Sexto Piso, 2014 Size: 6.69 in x 9.06 in ISBN: 978-607-77-8130-1 MSRP $16.85 USD By the same author Narrative Margo Glantz Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and her Contemporaries Margo Glantz Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México From the Fistol to the Lantern: an Homage to José Tomás de Cuéllar and Manuel Payno on the Centenary of their Deaths, 1994 Margo Glantz Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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