Mentideros de la memoria

Twenty chapters of anecdotes about writers the author came to know, first read aloud over several years to a circle of friends, and mixing memoir, essay and the storyteller's craft. Borges, in Mexico, complains that Arreola let him slip in only the odd silence; Arreola stops an unbearable reciter by calling him a terrorist; the author takes Cortázar's second wife, Ugné Karvelis, to Fernando Benítez's house to seek money for a doubtful foundation. Often he is the hero of his own stories: swindled on a street in Bogotá, close to tears beneath the lit window where Rayuela was written, a mighty drinker, a cultural official. Over the gossip stand his admiration for Rulfo, Fuentes, Monterroso, García Márquez, Loynaz, Eco and the others, and his humour.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

First published

2022 by Tusquets Editores

Author's age

74 when first published

ISBN

9786070788192 (original)