Mephisto's Waltz: Selected Short Stories - Softcover
"One of Mexico's most culturally complex and composite writers." —Publishers Weekly
Mephisto's Waltz brings together the best short stories from celebrated writer Sergio Pitol's oeuvre, including the titular story, Pitol's personal favorite. This collection, selected by the author, is a glimpse into the works that first gained Pitol his status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers and showcases the evolution of his unique literary style.
Sergio Pitol (b. 1933) is one of Mexico's foremost writers, and winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize. He is renowned for his intellectual career in both the fields of literary creation and translation.
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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.” Valeria Luiselli, author of The Story of My Teeth
"Pitol is one of the great Spanish-speaking authors from recent history, mentor and model for many writers from Spain and Latin America." Daniel Saldaña Paris, Publishers Weekly
"One of Mexico’s most culturally complex and composite writers." Publishers Weekly
"Masterful. . . . Pitol swirls together memories with poetic reflection, in a way that feels at home in America's memoir culture, but without this obsession with nonfiction." Dallas Observer
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"Pitol is one of the great Spanish-speaking authors from recent history, mentor and model for many writers from Spain and Latin America." Daniel Saldaña Paris, Publishers Weekly
"One of Mexico’s most culturally complex and composite writers." Publishers Weekly
"Masterful. . . . Pitol swirls together memories with poetic reflection, in a way that feels at home in America's memoir culture, but without this obsession with nonfiction." Dallas Observer
Sergio Pitol Demeneghi is one of Mexico's most influential and well-respected writers, born in the city of Puebla in 1933. He studied law and philosophy in Mexico City, and spent many years as a cultural attaché in Mexican embassies and consulates across the globe, including Poland, Hungary, Italy, and China. He is renowned for his intellectual career in both the field of literary creation and translation, with numerous novels, stories, criticisms, and translations to his name. Pitol is an influential contemporary of the most well-known authors of the Latin American "Boom," and began publishing his works in the 1960s. In recognition of the importance of his entire canon of work, Pitol was awarded the two most important prizes in the Spanish language world: the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1999 (now known as the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages), and in 2005 he won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious Spanish-language literary prize, often called the "Spanish language Nobel."
George Henson is a literary translator and lecturer of Spanish at the University of Oklahoma. His translations include Cervantes Prize laureate Sergio Pitol's Trilogy of Memory, Luis Jorge Boone's Cannibal Nights, and The Heart of the Artichoke by fellow Cervantes recipient Elena Poniatowska. His translations of essays, poetry, and short fiction, including works by Andrés Neuman, Leonardo Padura, Juan Villoro, Miguel Barnet, and Alberto Chimal have appeared in The Literary Review, BOMB, The Buenos Aires Review, Flash Fiction International, and Asymptote. In addition, he is a contributing editor for World Literature Today. George holds a PhD in literary and translation studies from the University of Texas at Dallas.
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- PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1941920659
- ISBN 13 9781941920657
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages250
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