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The art of flight

The art of flight

Biography
Pages
401
Published
2015
Language
English

Synopsis

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.

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About the author

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Sergio Pitol

Sergio Pitol Deméneghi (1933–2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist, translator and diplomat. Born in Puebla to a family of Italian descent, he was raised largely in Veracruz after his mother's early death. He studied law and literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México before beginning a decades-long career as a cultural attaché and ambassador, serving in Poland, Hungary, Italy, China and elsewhere. Alongside his own fiction — including the novels El desfile del amor and Domar a la...