Title: París desaparece
Description: Set in 1960s Paris, this novel is narrated in first person by a very young Mexican writer, almost a child, who is wonderstruck and enchanted with everything he is seeing and living through: with his strange relations with Sartre, with the painter who forges a Matisse, with his sensual aunt Adela, with the beautiful Alain who is accused of murder and becomes a transvestite, with Didi and Margot, with Jeanne who left for Amsterdam taking with her a photo of Tláloc, and with the Russian medium through whom a French gentleman expresses himself when he converses and argues with André Breton in the next life.
Subjects: Riots, Fiction, History, Mexican fiction
Places: Paris, France
Time periods: 20th century, 1958-