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"Ruy-Sánchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry, and intelligence in a new geometry of words. . . . His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity."--Octavio Paz "In the books by Ruy-Sánchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives, is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay they are made of. In his novels every experience, show more trivial or extraordinary, breathes through the erotic."--Alberto Manguel In Mogador--the city of desire--a woman, tired of her lover's insensitivity, decides to pose a challenge to him: She will make love with him only when he tells her about a new garden in the city. The problem is that he must search for gardens where one least expects to find them, and he may not invent them. To discover hidden gardens, he will have to tune his most powerful impulses. Alberto Ruy-Sánchez examines the complex nature of enduring intimacy and the daily challenge of addressing the ever-changing desires of the other. He considers the perpetual quest to re-create the magical moment when paradise was first discovered in the body of the beloved. Alberto Ruy-Sánchez is a Mexican writer and author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, many of which have been translated, including his novel Mogador, published by City Lights Publishers in 1992. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a professor of Spanish and the director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Her books of translation includeThe Entre Ríos Trilogy by Perla Suez andQuick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana María Shua. show lessTags
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En el puerto amurallado de Mogador, la ciudad del deseo, una mujer cansada de las crecientes muestras de insensibilidad de su amante decide imponerle un reto: sólo volverán a hacer el amor cad vez que él venga a contarle un nuevo jardín de la ciudad. El problema es que en Mogador no hay más jardines que el de ella. Él tendrá que descubrirlos donde no son evidentes y le estará prohibido inventarlos. Tendrá que educar de nuevo sus sentidos; a través del descubrimiento de los jardines secretos, tal vez se convierta en un mejor amante. Shajrazad al revés, en su voz se entrelazan la naturaleza y el deseo, la imaginación sexual y la materia.
C'est un beau livre, je veux dire bien écrit, enchanteur même. Malgré tout, j'ai été un peu déçu. Je crains que cela soit dû plutôt à des raisons personnelles. J'étais fatigué et assez tendu lorsque je l'ai lu, un état peu propice à la réception de la poésie.
Feb 19, 2010French
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Alberto Ruy Sánchez is a fiction and non fiction writer, poet and essayist from Mexico City. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Jussieu, Paris. He has published widely in scholarly journals and is the author of several books of literary criticism. Since 1988 he has served as the editor-in-chief of Artes de México, which has won show more more than one hundred national and international editorial awards. He was proclaimed Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2000, and in 2005 he received the honor of Gran Orden de Honor Nacional al Mérito Autoral in Mexico City. He is also an Honorary Citizen of Louisville, Kentucky, an Honorable Kentucky Colonel, and an Honorary Captain of the majestic steamship, the Belle of Louisville. In addition, he has served as a Visiting Tinker Scholar at Stanford University and as the Chairman of Creative Non-Fiction Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Secret Gardens of the Mogador
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- Los jardines secretos de Mogador
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- 863.64 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000
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- PQ7298.28 .U96 .J37 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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