Mogador by Alberto Ruy Snchez
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.Alberto Ruy Sánchez is a prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Ruy Sánchez studied with Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Rancière, and was awarded the Grand Order of National Merit for Authors in 2005. In 2006, he was honored with the Juan Pablos Award, and in 2012, he was honored with the St. The Lee Prize has been awarded to Petersburg. Ruy Sánchez received the José Fuentes Mares Award for Literature and was named a Fellow of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for this work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780872862715 |
| ISBN 10 | 0872862712 |
| Title | Mogador |
| Author | Alberto Ruy Snchez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | City Lights Books |
| Year published | 1992-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 124 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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