Fernando del paso mexican author and artist britannica. Dont read it looking to get somewhere or to finish. Fernando del paso books list of books by author fernando. Literatura mexicana siglo xx lc pq7297deweym863p536p. He worked as a diplomat, journalist, and advertising copywriter. His friends come by, to pontificate and drink and carouse. Reading the novels of fernando del paso intertextually 9 2. His novels included jose trigo, palinuro of mexico, and news from the empire. This challenging and rewarding novel has much bigger things on its mind. Littering the novel with references literary, medical, political, philosophical, historical del paso is almost entirely successful with this marvelously ambitious effort. The body, the nation, and the book of the world 72 4.
Palinuro is a reincarnation of the helmsman of aeneass ship in virgils aeneid and he valiantly stays at the helm throughout the book it is death which speaks through my lips. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Noticias del imperio and the new historical novel 105 5. Palinuro of mexico is a long surreal voyage throughout everything, full of obscure refrences, and quotations, palinuro takes you on a trip were mexico and all of its small surrealistic features come to light, were the abnormal is the commonplace and were palinuro sets out on a journey of selfuniversaldiscovery. Winner of mexicos premio novela mexico, spains romulo gallegos prize for best spanishlanguage. Del paso favours the maximal formpalinuro of mexico and news from the empire are sprawling imaginative playgrounds, concerned with the seemingly limitless possibilities of the human mind to transcend anything with everything. He sings of sex, of autopsy, of amputation and of excretion. Palinuro of mexico is a medical epopee with a lot of incredible digressions and nuances aplenty. Thus, maria anna was simultaneously his aunt and grandmother and margaret of austria, maria annas mother.
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