num_pages: 320
description: The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("the Spanish language Nobel"), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat.The first work in Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," The Art of Flight imaginatively blends the genres of fiction and memoir in a Borgesian swirl of contemplation and mystery, expanding our understanding and appreciation of what literature can be and what it can do.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: El arte de la fuga
titlecomplete: El arte de la fuga
genres: Latin American Literature, Travel, Latin American, Novels, Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Essays, Fiction
ratings_count: 483
series: Trilogía de la memoria
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Premio Mazatlán de Literatura
publisher: Ediciones ERA