The Journey
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The Journey

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By Sergio PitolTranslated from the Spanish by George Henson The second book in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking and influential "Trilogy of Memory." Publication Date: August 18, 2015 Paperback: 9781941920183eBook: 9781941920190 Description "Reading Pitol, one has the impression of being before the greatest writer in the Spanish language in our time." —Enrique Vila-Matas The Journey features one of the world's master storytellers at work as he skillfully recounts two weeks of travel around the Soviet Union in 1986. From the first paragraph, Sergio Pitol dislocates the sense of reality, masterfully and playfully blurring the lines between fiction and fact. This adventurous story, based on the author's own travel journals, parades through some of the territories that the author lived in and traveled through (Prague, the Caucasus, Moscow, Leningrad) as he reflects on the impact of Russia's sacred literary pantheon in his life and the power that literature holds over us all. The Journey, the

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