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The large glass / by Mario Bellatin ; translated from the Spanish by David Shook.
- 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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Details
- 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.
- Large glass : three autobiographies
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- My skin, luminous -- The sheikha's true illness -- A character in modern appearance.
- ISBN
- 1939419492
- 9781939419491
- OCLC
- 944932945
- SCSB-12819327
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library