Description
A kaleidoscopic, fast-paced tour of Latin The usa from one of the most Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers.
Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman begins to suspect that world Go back and forth consists mostly of “not seeing.” But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his commute provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin The usa in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move, generating a kinetic work that may be at once puckish and poetic, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-known as non-places—airports, hotels, taxis—are turned into powerful symbols full of meaning. A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen, he incisively explores cultural identity and nationality, immigration and globalization, history and language, and turbulent current events. Above all, Neuman investigates the artistic lifeblood of Latin The usa, tackling with gusto not only literary heavyweights such as Bolaño, Vargas Llosa, Lorca, and Galeano, but also an emerging generation of authors and filmmakers whose affect is now making ripples all over the world.
Eye-opening and charmingly offbeat, How to Go back and forth without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America is very important reading for anyone interested previously, present, and future of the Americas.