Juan Villoro
"We walked toward the part of the library where the air smelled as if it had been interred for years..... Finally, we got to the hallway where the wooden floor was the creakiest, and we sensed a strange whiff of excitement and fear. It smelled like a creature from a bygone time. It smelled like a dragon."
Thirteen-year-old Juan's summer is off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his
...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...
El nuevo volumen de ensayos literarios de Juan Villoro: un festín de erudición, inteligencia, originalidad y apasionamiento.
Los hermanos Grimm ampararon sus cuentos bajo el lema: «Entonces, cuando desear todavía era útil.» Hubo una remota arcadia en la que las hadas recompensaban la esperanza. Novelista, dramaturgo, autor de cuentos infantiles, Juan Villoro entiende la lectura como un regreso al momento esquivo
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