The large glass
By: by Mario Bellatin ; translated from the Spanish by David Shook
Contributors: Shook, David (Poet), translator
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781939419491
Subjects: Sufism; Fiction; Autobiography
Work titles: Gran vidrio
Description: 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.
Notes: Translated to English from Spanish. Origianlly published with title: El gran vidrio : tres autobiografias (Barcelona : Editorial Anagrama, 2007).
Table of contents: title: My skin, luminous; title: The sheikha's true illness; title: A character in modern appearance.