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The large glass

Title
The large glass / by Mario Bellatin ; translated from the Spanish by David Shook.
Author
Bellatin, Mario, 1960-
Publication
  • Los Angeles : Phoneme Media, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
Shook, David (Poet)
Description
150 pages; 18 cm
Summary
In three separate autobiographies, celebrated Mexican innovator Mario Bellatin recounts his childhood trauma as a bathhouse spectacle, the treatment of an illness suffered by his Sufi spiritual mentor, and his complicated search for a quality second-hand Renault 5. Bellatin has already delivered a laugh-out-loud satirical biography of a reclusive (and fictional) Japanese author with 2013's novel, Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction . Reversing the gaze, Bellatin now examines perhaps his most complicated, and least reliable, subject: himself. Like the Duchamp sculpture from which it takes its name, Mario Bellatin's The Large Glass deconstructs the very form it embraces, revealing the artifice of the autobiographical genre, while celebrating--with wit and raunchy humor--the importance of the stories we tell about ourselves. Another entry in English that further solidifies Mario Bellatin as one of Latin America's most important living writers.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Alternative Title
Works.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Contents
My skin, luminous -- The sheikha's true illness -- A character in modern appearance.
Call Number
JFC 16-118
ISBN
  • 1939419492
  • 9781939419491
OCLC
944932945
Author
Bellatin, Mario, 1960- author.
Title
The large glass / by Mario Bellatin ; translated from the Spanish by David Shook.
Publisher
Los Angeles : Phoneme Media, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Shook, David (Poet), translator.
Research Call Number
JFC 16-118
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