Translation of the Mexican original of 1974. The award-winning novel explores the creation of fiction. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
She won the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for her novel, Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina (1974). From 1978 to 1982 she was the director of the Mexican chapter of the writers' organisation PEN.
Julieta Campos fixed her literary gaze upon a woman’s momentary gaze, and I was captured for days. Almost nothing happens in this book, but the numinous is unfurled.
I can’t recommend this book enough, even though I can’t see nearly anyone I know actually enjoying it. For true literarians only.