El fantasma y el poeta (Narrativa Sexto Piso)

by Carmen Boullosa, Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas (Contributor)

Dissolving the tenuous line of the present and shaping a frame within which time becomes fluid, our senses don’t stop at just five, and death loses its anachronistic character, these stories tell of legendary people, events that may or may not have happened, as well as dreams with real consequences and realities with dreamlike plots.   Disolviendo la tenue línea del presente y conformando un marco en el que los tiempos se funden, los sentidos no son sólo cinco y la muerte pierde su carácter anacrónico, estas historias relatan leyendas de personas, eventos que pudieron o no haber acontecido, y sueños con desenlaces reales y realidades con tramas oníricas.

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Carmen Boullosa (b. September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. Her work has been praised by a number of prominent writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly. She has won a number of awards for her works, and has taught at universities such as Georgetown University, Columbia University and New York University (NYU), as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York. She has two children -- Maria Aura and Juan Aura -- with her former partner, Alejandro Aura --and is now married to Mike Wallace, the Pulitzer Prize–winning co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Scarlet Cameo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Con sus altos y bajos, pero en general 👍

-RTC-

[El Zuco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice to read NYC through literatura mexicana

[Arami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unexpected twists and humor bordering, and often crossing into, a very maximalist absurd. A play on literature and expected memes. Smart. More insightful than the light, off-hand tone would suggest at first pass.