
Horizontal Vertigo
A City Called Mexico
Vintage Books (Publisher)
Published on 11. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-593-68779-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Horizontal Vertigo: the title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while brilliantly drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico City's cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today, one of the world's leading cultural and financial centers. In his deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of chapter titles: 'Living in the City,' 'City Characters,' 'Shocks, Crossings, and Ceremonies.' What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City's genius loci, its spirit of place"
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-593-68779-6 (9780593687796)
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03/2021
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Persons
JUAN VILLORO is Mexico’s preeminent novelist. Born in Mexico City in 1956, he is the author of half a dozen prize-winning novels and is also a journalist. In 2004, he received the Herralde Prizefor his novel El testigo (The Witness).