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Palinuro of Mexico by Fernando Del Paso (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing

ISBN-101564780953

ISBN-139781564780959

eBay Product ID (ePID)349299

Product Key Features

Book TitlePalinuro of Mexico

Number of Pages557 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

TopicGeneral

GenreFiction

AuthorFernando Del Paso

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight26.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-053205

Dewey Edition20

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal863

SynopsisLike those writers to whom he has been compared--Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, James Joyce, and Rabelais--del Paso draws upon myth, science, and world literature to expand his particular story to universal proportions. Telling the story of a medical medical student who's engaged in an incestuous affair with his cousin, the novel satirizes advertising, politics, pornography, and mythology, while at the same time celebrating the body with a thoroughness that only a student of medicine could manage., Translated by Elisabeth Plaister,One of the most astonishing books to come out of,Mexico in recent years. Palinuro, a medical,student belongs to an eccentric, cosmopolitan,Mexican family living in the nation's capitol;,since childhood he has loved his first cousinEstefania whith an overwhelming and consuming,passion. del Paso satirizes advertising, politicspornography and mythology with Swiftian glee and,a thoroughness that only a medical student could,manage and in a language only a word drunk nove...

LC Classification NumberPQ7298.26.A76P313