Aristotle on the Metro
Tony Wood: Forgetting Mexico City, 24 February 2022
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
by Juan Villoro, translated by Alfred MacAdam.
Pantheon, 346 pp., £27, March 2021,978 1 5247 4888 3 Show More
by Juan Villoro, translated by Alfred MacAdam.
Pantheon, 346 pp., £27, March 2021,
Battles in the Desert
by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver.
New Directions, 54 pp., £10, June 2021,978 0 8112 3095 7 Show More
by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver.
New Directions, 54 pp., £10, June 2021,
“... then, but the admission of constant, irrevocable change. A similar sentiment runs through José EmilioPacheco’s classic novella Battles in the Desert, first published in 1980 and now reissued in a revised translation. The narrator, Carlos, recalls his childhood in Mexico City during the presidency of Miguel ... ”
