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Horizontal Vertigo:a City Called Mexico
[Paperback - 2024]
juan villoro
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Category: History
Additional Category: Travel - Sociology
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780593687796 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .281 | Dimensions: 5.188 x .75 x 8 inches

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At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.
 
Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers.
 
In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.

About the Author

Juan Villoro (Ciudad de México, 1956) es escritor y periodista. Ha publicado los libros de ensayos literarios Efectos personales (Premio Mazatlán de Literatura), De eso se trata y La utilidad del deseo; las crónicas de futbol Dios es redondo (Premio Manuel Vázquez Montalbán) y Balón dividido; las novelas El testigo (Premio Herralde), Materia dispuesta, El disparo de argón y Arrecife (Premio José María Arguedas); los libros de cuentos Los culpables y La casa pierde (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia). Por el conjunto de su obra ha recibido los premios José Donoso y Manuel Rojas, otorgados en Chile, y el Liber, concedido por los editores españoles. Ha sido profesor en la unam y profesor visitante en las universidades de Yale, Princeton, Stanford y Pompeu Fabra. Ha colaborado para medios como Reforma, La Jornada, The New York Times, El País, El Mercurio, entre otros. Su obra ha sido traducida a numerosos idiomas.

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