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Horizontal Vertigo

Auteur(s): Juan Villoro, Alfred MacAdam - translator
Narrateur(s): Gabriel Porras
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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.

Horizontal Vertigo: 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.

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 of place.

©2021 Juan Villoro (P)2021 Random House Audio
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“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.” (The New York Times Book Review)

"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.’” (The New Yorker

"Horizontal Vertigo is the best - wittiest, wisest, most detailed and enlightened - 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." (Paul Theroux, author of On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey

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Great read for Mexico-City-files

If like me you are fascinated by Mexico City's chaotic charms and unexpected gems, then you will love Juan Villoro's collection of first person essays. Villoro is an incisive but empathetic observer of the capital's characters, neighbourhoods, politics and history. And all their foibles. Where appropriate, he uses literary allusion to sharpen the humour or irony of so many situations. I personally found it a refreshing update to Octavio Paz's classic Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) - though less ambitious or pretentious than Labyrinth, Horizontal Vertical still manages to get at the heart of the Mexican soul from its necessarily dazziling tangle of perspectives.

Gabriel Porras narrates the book with a charming Mexican accent, which only lends warmth and authenticity to the stories being told.

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