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020			_a9781941920480
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bPIT
100			_aPitol,Sergio
245			_aMAGICIAN OF VIENNA
250			_a1
260			_aDallas _bDeep Vellum _c2017
300			_g295
500			_a Longlisted for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award "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.
650			_aFiction
700			_aGeorge Henson, (tr.)
942			_cLEN
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999			_c192052 _d192052