The Art of Flight

By Sergio PitolTranslated from the Spanish by George Henson The maestro of Mexican literature published in English for the first time in his masterpiece: a multigenre literary memoir reflecting on a life lived through literature. Publication Date: March 17, 2015 Paperback: 9781941920060eBook: 9781941920077 Description   "Pitol is unfathomable; it could almost be said that he is a literature entire of himself." —Daniel Saldaña Paris, author of Among Strange Victims The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("the Spanish language Nobel"), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat. The first work in Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," The Art of Flight imaginatively blends the genres of fiction and memoir in a Borgesian swirl of contemplation and mystery, expanding our