Viaje a México

A miscellany of chronicles, sketches, long essays and short reviews, held together by one idea: Mexico as an imagined country, explored through its symbols, history, myths and literature. The first part turns to public life: a traveller's autobiography and a study of travel, a look at how Mexicans act out the bravado, mystery or barbarism that foreign visitors expect, Mayan ruins and regional landscapes, sketches of the flag, of the unsung Bernardo Reyes and of the author's father, and accounts of literary occasions such as Octavio Paz's Nobel ceremony. The second part reads the country's writers, from Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Cuesta, Juan Rulfo, Salvador Elizondo and Gabriel Zaid to forgotten or marginal figures such as Antonio Mediz Bolio and Jaime Reyes.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

374 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Iberoamericana Vervuert

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9788484894063 (original)