[D66] [JD: 136] Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico

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  Juan Villoro presents "Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico," with
  Paul Theroux

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Juan Villoro joins us to present Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called
Mexico, in conversation with Paul Theroux. This program took place on Zoom.



On 08-07-2021 06:02, R.O. wrote:
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>   Horizontal Vertigo by Juan Villoro: 9781524748883 |
>   PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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> Horizontal Vertigo by Juan Villoro
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>         Product Details
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> Hardcover | $30.00
> Published by Pantheon
> Mar 23, 2021 | 368 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9781524748883
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> 4 minutes
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>         About Horizontal Vertigo
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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.
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> “Villoro recounts his adventures with a mix of irony and empathy, with
> a sense of humor and a feeling for the absurd. He is exquisitely
> attuned to the capital’s contradictions and nuances, and he knows how
> to listen to its inhabitants. There are deeply moving moments in this
> book.”
> */—The New York Times /Book Review*“One of Mexico’s most celebrated
> contemporary writers offers an affectionate exploration of the
> country’s capital city. [Villoro] does not shy away from issues of
> poverty, class, and gender, and the result is an enthralling, often
> funny depiction of a city that “overflowed urbanism and installed
> itself in mythology.”*
> /—The New Yorker/*
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> “/Horizontal Vertigo/ is the best*/—/*wittiest, wisest, most detailed
> and enlightened*/—/*book I’ve read about Mexico City. It is both
> deeply personal and scholarly, and most of all humane and humorous –
> Juan Villoro’s triumph as a chronicler of Mexican life.”
> */—/Paul Theroux, author of /On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey/*
>
> “The joy of /Horizontal Vertigo/ is that it offers a unique entry into
> Mexico City’s “inexhaustible encyclopedia” of people, places and old
> traditions, complementing the history books and outperforming the tour
> guides… Villoro is so closely identified with Mexico City that it’s
> impossible to imagine how one can be known without the other, which is
> why his writings consistently employ the communal “we,” as in this
> telling statement about the unbreakable bond between Chilangopolis and
> chilangos: “What was once a cityscape is now our autobiography.”
> */—The Los Angeles Times/*“Juan Villoro, one of Mexico’s leading
> novelists, delivers a contemporary portrait of Mexico City that is as
> diverse and labyrinthine as the city itself. In Horizontal Vertigo: A
> City Called Mexico, he weaves together voices, styles and disciplines
> in a personal and expansive exploration, a flâneur through geography,
> history and culture.”
> */—The Guardian/*
>
> “Deeply learned . . . Along his leisurely, illuminating path, Villoro
> delivers an essential update of Octavio Paz’s /The Labyrinth of
> Solitude/ (1950). He can be both brittle and funny . . . Celebrating
> food, wandering through earthquake-struck ruins, reflecting on
> literary heroes, Villoro makes an excellent Virgil. An unparalleled
> portrait of a city in danger of growing past all reasonable limits.″
> */*/—/*Kirkus Reviews/ [starred review]*“This is a stimulating
> portrait of one of the world’s most mind-bending metropolises.″*
> /*/—/*Publishers Weekly/*“Villoro applies his witty and incisive pen
> to the monster that is Mexico City . . . Villoro’s voice is engaging,
> and the subject matter, fascinating . . . An unusual and rewarding
> read for all who love or are intrigued by Mexico City.″
> */*/—/*Booklist
> /*/
> /“This is Villoro’s masterpiece . . . His great achievement in
> Horizontal Vertigo resides in his ability to understand and make the
> city known through different characters, occupations, and beliefs.
> Although many writers have been interested in Mexico City, such as
> Carlos Monsiváis and Carlos Fuentes, Juan Villoro finds a new,
> postmodern way of portraying the contemporary city.”*/
> *—/World Literature Today/*
> / /
> /*“One of the ten best nonfiction books of the year. A superheroic
> effort to tame the urban chaos that was born of an ecocide: the drying
> up of a lake. No city is wilder, more monstrous than Mexico’s capital.
> And few writers know it with more precision and passion than Juan
> Villoro.”/
> /*/*—/The New York Times en Español/*/*
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