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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Horizontal vertigo. The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flâneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while ... drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico City's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: This is a compilation of chronicles about the Mexican capital. A City Called Mexico. Villoro's great achievement in The Horizontal Vertigo resides in his ability to understand and make the city known through different characters, occupations, and beliefs. He finds a new, postmodern way of portraying the contemporary city. World Literature Today Narrativa (Editorial Almadia) series, Mexico, Photos, 416pp.
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