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<p>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.<br>
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<em>Horizontal Vertigo: </em>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.<br>
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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
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<p>“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.”<br>
<strong><em>—The New York Times </em>Book Review</strong>“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.”<strong><br>
<em>—The New Yorker</em></strong></p>
<p>“<em>Horizontal Vertigo</em> is the best<strong><em>—</em></strong>wittiest,
wisest, most detailed and enlightened<strong><em>—</em></strong>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.”<br>
<strong><em>—</em>Paul Theroux, author of <em>On the Plain of
Snakes: A Mexican Journey</em></strong></p>
<p>“The joy of <em>Horizontal Vertigo</em> 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.”<br>
<strong><em>—The Los Angeles Times</em></strong>“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.”<br>
<strong><em>—The Guardian</em></strong></p>
“Deeply learned . . . Along his leisurely, illuminating path,
Villoro delivers an essential update of Octavio Paz’s <em>The
Labyrinth of Solitude</em> (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.″<br>
<strong><em><strong><em>—</em></strong>Kirkus Reviews</em>
[starred review]</strong>“This is a stimulating portrait of one
of the world’s most mind-bending metropolises.″<strong><br>
<em><strong><em>—</em></strong>Publishers Weekly</em></strong>“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.″<br>
<strong><em><strong><em>—</em></strong>Booklist<br>
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</em>“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.”<strong><em><br>
<strong>—<em>World Literature Today</em></strong><br>
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</em></strong>“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.”<em><br>
</em><strong><em> <strong>—<em>The New York Times en Español</em></strong></em></strong>
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