{"title":"Alberto Ruy Snchez","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mogador-book-alberto-ruy-snchez-9780872862715","title":"Mogador","description":"Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel  Set in an imaginary walled city off the coast of Morocco, Mogador traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman who finds herself suddenly seized by desire. As she wanders the city's maze of erotic pleasures, she encounters other desiring bodies and the desperate worlds those desires create. Here is a vital fusion of Latin America magical realism with Arabic geometric and mystical imagery, written in a style the author calls a \"prose of intensities.\"  \"This extremely talented Mexican writer...assumes is own Islamic roots in one of the best-written novels of recent years. He is truly a painter of dreams, who manages to fuse the most unblemished sensuality with the most transparent spirituality.\" -Luce Lopez Baralt  \"Memorable novella about being both untouched and seized-all described in prose that mixes dreamy arabesque with crystalline precision.\" -Kirkus Review  \"Ruy Sanchez balances a double paradox: his novella about female desire, written by a man, criticizes Islamic and Latin-American concepts of male dominance. It's a dazzling philosophical conundrum - a Sphinx-like riddle that only a king or a poet could solve. In any event, the pervasive desire in Mogador is particularized: it's the calling out of one body to another, one spirit to another, one soul to another...This infatuating novella is not about eroticism; it's about love.\" -William Hollinger, Boston Review  Alberto Ruy Sanchez has written many works of fiction as well as literary and art criticism. He was an editor of Octavo Paz's Vuelta and is now editor and chief of Artes de Mexico.  Mark Schafer has translated works by Virgilio Piniera and, with Cedric Belfrage, and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639587578129,"sku":"GOR012174935","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372123328785,"sku":"CIN0872862712VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50945760854289,"sku":"GOR004151932","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009015611665,"sku":"NIN9780872862715","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52536346837265,"sku":"NLS9780872862715","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872862712.jpg?v=1751139768"},{"product_id":"secret-gardens-of-mogador-book-alberto-ruy-snchez-9781893996991","title":"The Secret Gardens of Mogador","description":"\"Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry, and intelligence in a new geometry of words...His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.\"-Octavio Paz  \"In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives, is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay they are made of. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breathes through the erotic.\"-Alberto Manguel  In Mogador-the city of desire-a woman, tired of her lover's insensitivity, decides to pose a challenge to him: She will make love with him only when he tells her about a new garden in the city. The problem is that he must search for gardens where one least expects to find them, and he may not invent them. To discover hidden gardens, he will have to tune his most powerful impulses.  Alberto Ruy-Sanchez examines the complex nature of enduring intimacy and the daily challenge of addressing the ever-changing desires of the other. He considers the perpetual quest to re-create the magical moment when paradise was first discovered in the body of the beloved.  Alberto Ruy-Sanchez is a Mexican writer and author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, many of which have been translated, including his novel Mogador, published by City Lights Publishers in 1992.  Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a professor of Spanish and the director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Her books of translation include The Entre Rios Trilogy by Perla Suez and Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana Maria Shua.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51053112099089,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053114917137,"sku":"NIN9781893996991","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52678790545681,"sku":"NLS9781893996991","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1893996999.jpg?v=1751314626"},{"product_id":"con-la-literatura-en-el-cuerpo-literature-in-the-body-book-alberto-ruy-snchez-9786073844079","title":"Con la literatura en el cuerpo \/ Literature in the Body","description":"\u003cb\u003e«Tiene razón Octavio Paz al señalar a Ruy Sánchez como uno de los mejores ensayistas contemporáneos. Cada uno de sus textos tiene la riqueza narrativa de una novela y la inteligencia analítica para señalar los temas fundamentales de nuestro tiempo.» -Claude-Michel Cluny\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Catorce ensayos narrativos sobre cómo viven grandes escritores la melancolía y cómo la enfrentan creativamente. Escritores que son claves de toda la obra de Ruy Sánchez --Rilke en París, Yourcenar, Pasolini, Calvino, Beckett, Frisch, Hugo, Savinio-- son leídos como grandes catedrales góticas. En otros ámbitos, gracias a llevar la literatura en el cuerpo sobreviven a las opresiones góticas del totalitarismo contemporáneo Zamiatin y Orwell, Istrati, Herling, Shostakovich y Nadiezhda Mandelstam. Dos tumbas góticas de sus maestros, Michel Foucault y Roland Barthes, cierran el paréntesis que abrió en el libro con una introducción sobre la naturaleza del ensayo, donde el mismo Roland Barthes ofrece la primera lección vital de pensamiento y escritura.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA dialogue with the inhabitants of the great melancholic dream of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sixteen narrative essays written with the prose that defines Alberto Ruy Sánchez, revisits a protagonist--melancholy--that acts by the self and vindicates the body. The essays are divided in three sections. The first one, \"Memories of Gothic Cathedrals,\" discusses the life and work of writers possessed by forces that overcome them, and for whom the vortex of living is visible in their work: Rilke, Alberto Savinio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Marguerite Yourcenar, Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch, and Victor Hugo.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The second part, \"Memories of Gothic Prisons,\" gathers writers under the destructive effect of dictatorial regimes. Those who survive bare the imprint of a shadow on their skin: Mikhail Shostakovich, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Eugeny Zamiatin, Geroge Orwell, Panait Istrati, Herling, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn. The third part, \"Memories of Gothic Tombs,\" addresses writers we lost while this book was being written. Each essay is a tombstone, a line onto them: Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51682072133905,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51682072559889,"sku":"NIN9786073844079","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/6073844077.jpg?v=1750775155"},{"product_id":"poetics-of-wonder-passage-to-mogador-book-alberto-ruy-snchez-9781935210559","title":"Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador","description":"This undefinable book: poetry, short tales, and intellegence is written on the skin, like a ritual tattoo of desire.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52677910298897,"sku":"NLS9781935210559","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781935210559.jpg?v=1762306930"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-alberto-ruy-snchez.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}