Description
Book SynopsisWritten with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexico’s foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and “living dangerously” as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.
Trade Review"And if 'translators translate context,' as Edith Grossman asserts, then what we encounter when we read
Pillar of Salt is a supreme translation not only of language but also of culture, politics, sexuality, and boyhood." * Bookslut *
"Reading [
Pillar of Salt] was like shining a black light into a motel room, laying bare the secret traces of every lurid, defiant act that had preceded me there." * The Believer *
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Sidelong World: Where Confession and Proclamation Are Compounded, by Carlos Monsiváis
-
Pillar of Salt by Salvador Novo
- “This flower of fourteen petals”: Salvador Novo and the Sonnet, by Marguerite Feitlowitz
- Sonnets
- Notes
- Index of Names
