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Written 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.

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"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

Pillar of Salt

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    A Hardback by Salvador Novo, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Carlos Monsiváis

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292705418, 978-0292705418
      ISBN10: 0292705417
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Written 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

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