{"product_id":"9781941920480","title":"The Magician of Vienna","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"We can read \u003ci\u003eThe Magician of Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e not just as a work of literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store humanity’s imaginary.” — Mario Bellatin, author of \u003ci\u003eBeauty Salon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid \"Trilogy of Memory\" finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through literature as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language. Fiction invades autobiography—and vice versa—as Pitol writes to forestall the advancement of degenerative memory loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pitol’s writing – the way he constructs sentences, inflects Spanish, twists meanings and stresses particular words – reflects the multiplicity of languages he has read and embraced. Reading him is like reading through the layers of many languages at once.” — \u003cb\u003eValeria Luiselli, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSergio Pitol\u003c\/b\u003e, the greatest living Mexican writer, winner of the Juan Rulfo and Cervantes prizes, is profoundly influential to the current generation of Spanish-language writers, including Valeria Luiselli, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Yuri Herrera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061441413360,"sku":"9781941920480","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941920480_p0.jpg?v=1763757651","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941920480","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}