{"product_id":"the-magician-of-vienna-9781941920480","title":"The Magician of Vienna","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"We can read \u003ci\u003eThe Magician of Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBeauty Salon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" -- \u003cb\u003eValeria Luiselli, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergio Pitol\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941920480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sergio Pitol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39329678262453,"sku":"9781941920480","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e1714be8-7d59-417c-94bb-b1a7a0070f43.jpg?v=1614692323","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-magician-of-vienna-9781941920480","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}