num_pages: 557
description: Like 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 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.
language: English
title: Palinuro of Mexico
titlecomplete: Palinuro of Mexico (World Literature Series)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Latin American, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 540
places: Mexico
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Premio de Novela México
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press