Palinuro of Mexico Paperback - 1996
by Fernando Del Paso; Elisabeth Plaister (Translator)
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 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.
From the rear cover
Palinuro, a medical student, is born into a polygenetic family: Uncle Esteban, who fled from Hungary during the Great War and travelled across the world to Mexico, clinging to his dream of becoming a doctor; Grandpa Francisco, a Freemason and old-time companion of Pancho Villa; Uncle Austin, an ex-British marine; grandmothers, aunts, cousins - an eccentric menage. Since childhood, Palinuro has loved his first cousin, Estefania, with an overwhelming and consuming passion. They indulge their incestuous desire and bizarre fantasies in a room in Plaza Santo Domingo. Drawing from a cultural cornucopia, del Paso propels Palinuro and his companions through the real and imaginary realms of mythology, science, politics, social comment, the arts, advertising and pornography. This labyrinthine tour de force is a fusion of Rabelaisian wit, Swiftian satire, Shakespearean invention and pastiche ranging from Hawthorne to Galdos.
Details
- Title Palinuro of Mexico
- Author Fernando Del Paso; Elisabeth Plaister (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 557
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
- Date 1996
- ISBN 9781564780959 / 1564780953
- Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.05 x 1.21 in (22.96 x 15.37 x 3.07 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Library of Congress subjects Mexico - Fiction, Picaresque literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95053205
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/1996, Page 1673
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/1996, Page 857
- Library Journal, 07/01/1996, Page 156
- New York Times, 08/11/1996, Page 16
- Publishers Weekly, 06/03/1996, Page 77
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