The Family Tree

GLANTZ, MARGO

Biographies & Memoirs

Serpent's Tail

After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora García travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together. The way you hold a cello, the way light lands on a Caravaggio, the way the castrati hit notes like no one else could--a lifetime of conversations about art and music and history unfolds for Nora García as she and a crowd of friends and fans send off her recently deceased ex-husband, Juan. Like any good symphony, there are themes and repetitions and contrapuntal notes. We pingpong back and forth between Nora's life with Juan (a renowned pianist and composer, and just as accomplished a raconteur) and the present day (the presentness of the past), where she sits among his familiar things, next to his coffin, breathing in the particular mix of mildew and lilies that overwhelm this day and her thoughts. In Glantz's hands, music and art access our most intimate selves, illustrating and creating our identities, and offering us ways to express love and loss and bewilderment when words cannot suffice. As Nora says, "Life is an absurd wound: I think I deserve to be given condolences."

The Remains

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Charco Press

Winner of the 2005 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize "What do I feel?" asks the narrator, Nora García, as she goes back to a Mexican village she has not visited in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a massive heart attack. This deeply moving novel is the unspoken answer to Nora's self-questioning. "The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of," Pascal said, and this aphorism of knowing and not knowing is at the core of the novel. Employing motifs of "the heart," modes of music from the tango to Bach, and allusions to poetry, the text is a rich amalgam that reveals a life lived deep within literary culture.Like her ex-husband, Nora is a musician, a cellist, and so it is fitting that her novel takes the form of a canon and fugue: phrases circle and repeat, variations are introduced, motifs come and go and intermingle, reflecting a paralysis of the grieving.
The novel moves inexorably toward the burial and the revelation of Nora's complex, emotional reaction to Juan's death. Throughout the novel, Nora is moving in the "wake" of that death, being pulled along by the ceremonies of the funeral, the mass, the burial. A rich, nuanced evocation of states of mind and emotion, The Wake powerfully illuminates Nora's quiet grief and rage.

The Wake

United States

Curbstone Books

Mexiko. Fotografien.

Rulfo, Juán

Jiménez, Victor

Billeter, Erika

Lozoya, Jorge Alberto

Fuentes, Charlos

Rivero, Eduardo

Benteli

* The outstanding photographs in this book focus on an odd detail in a selection of the world's most famous paintings in the largest and best known museum - they only show feet and shoes. With texts in four languages from an outstanding art expert and icon of Mexican literary studies * A must-have for all shoe fetishists and art lovers * Winner of the 2012 Printissimo Award in the category Art, Austria's award for outstanding print products In acclaimed photographer Lois Lammerhuber's pictures, shod feet in the Louvre paintings reveal undreamt-of information about people. The details are not only separate works of art, but also studies on centuries of shoe fashion and an excursion into social history. Almost intimate, the photographs raise the world of feet and footwear to eye level, showing delicate shoes and stout limbs; feet without shoes and shoes without feet. The viewing angle is a special one, not only for art enthusiasts but also for shoe lovers. Raphael, Goya, or Ingres did not produce or design footwear, but they all 'recorded' shoes, contributing to a history of footwear and at the same time creating fashion archives of shoes that people stepped out in between 1280 and 1863. In a brilliant discourse, Margo Glantz, an icon of Mexican literary studies, introduces the viewer to original thoughts on painting and footwear design, the history and sociology of shoes.

Musee du Louvre: Painted Shoes

Arts & Photography

Lammerhuber, Lois

Individual Artists

Edition Lammerhuber

MALINCHE, SUS PADRES Y SUS HIJOS, LA

Taurus

¿Conoce usted su origen?¿De dónde vienen sus padres?¿Sabe por qué tiene la religión que profesa? Preguntas similares responde Margo Glantz sobre su pasado y sigue el rastro de su familia en Las genealogías: "Mis padres nacieron en una Ucrania judía, muy diferente a la de ahora y mucho más diferente aún del México en que nací, este México, Distrito Federal, donde tuve la suerte de ver la vida entre los gritos de los marchantes de La Merced, esos marchantes a quienes mi madre miraba asombrada, vestida totalmente de blanco". Margo Glantz desenmaraña los orígenes centroeuropeos de los Glantz, y los acompaña en su forzada peregrinación a principios del siglo XX, buscando mejores oportunidades de vida, hasta su arribo y asentamiento en México. Da testimonio de la epopeya de los suyos aún antes de que aquellos empezaran a ser lo que fueron, restaura olvidos, las huellas borradas de la forzada peregrinación, escribe con elegante soltura y rescata la formación de una identidad: mujer, judía y mexicana, a través de la entrevista a sus padres, de profundizar en la intimidad del hogar, del ejercicio de la memoria y de sus deseos adolescentes. Margo Glantz hace de Las genealogías su punto de partida y encuentra respuestas en esta monumental autobiografía familiar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Do you know your roots? Where your parents came from? Why you practice a certain religion? In Las genealogías Mario Glantz follows the trail of his past in a monumental family autobiography that untangles his Central European origins and family's forced pilgrimage. "My parents were born in a Jewish Ukraine, very different from today's and even more different to the Mexico I was born in, a Mexico City where I was fortunate to grasp life amidst the peddlers of La Merced, the same peddlers my mother, entirely dressed in white, stared at in wonder."

Las genealogías (Spanish Edition)

Community & Culture

Alfaguara

La narrativa de Glantz se construye por la acumulación de fragmentos que, como por una casualidad rara, se construyendo como los fragmentos de una trama, si bien son el lenguaje, la organización textual, y la estructura los que le otorgan su densidad como relato. En la arqueología de lo frívolo que hace Glantz -postales, cabellos, ballenas y hasta lecturas- el lector descubrirá la importancia de los objetos cotidianos que ganan peso por las situaciones y asociaciones que plantean, por la exploración a partir de ellos de aspectos de la vida que sólo una mujer puede explorar: una escritura que es, en ese sentido, también feminista. Este segundo tomo de las Obras reunidas de la autora ofrece su crónica reconstruida Las genealogías, sus ensayos reatos El día de tu boda, Doscientas ballenas azules, Síndrome de naufragios y De la amorosa inclinación a enredarse los cabellos.

Obras reunidas II. Narrativa (Literatura) (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

With impressive accompanying photographs, this travelogue relates the experiences lived by the author during two journeys through the country of India. Along with the author, readers witness not only breathtaking landscapes and a stunning diversity of people, but also ceremonial events and traditions. Indian culture is depicted in its full and frequently hectic splendor in this astonishing book that will appeal to readers’ five senses.
Con impresionantes fotografías acompañantes, esta narrativa de viajes relata las experiencias vividas por la autora durante dos viajes que hizo a la India. Junto a la autora, el lector puede ser testigo no sólo de paisajes impresionantes y una increíble diversidad de personas, pero también de eventos ceremoniales y tradiciones. La cultura india aparece en su más puro y frecuentemente frenético resplandor en este asombroso libro que apelará a los cinco sentidos del lector.

Coronada de moscas (Spanish Edition)

Travel

Asia

Sexto Piso Editorial

El corazon, dice Pascal, tiene razones que la razon desconoce. Este conocido aforismo del filosofo frances medula la novela de Margo Glantz: Nora Garcia, la protagonista, esta de regreso en su pueblo para asistir al velorio de su ex marido, musico como ella, quien acaba de morir de un infarto de miocardio. En esta novela, el corazon es el verdadero centro del relato y de la vida. Y la variacion es la clave de la organización narrativa. Se parte del material mas trillado para realzar el arte de la combinacion, la transfiguracion, el uso sistematico de un canon y la edificacion de una amplia estructura a partir de una obsesion monocorde. Numerosas intercalaciones y digresiones funcionan a la manera de las variaciones Goldberg de Juan Sebastian Bach, en especial la interpretacion caprichosa que hiciera de ellas Glenn Gould. La vida, dice el tango, es una herida absurda. Nora Garcia la va viviendo como un derrumbe, una pulverizacion, aunque tambien como la posibilidad de empezar de nuevo, en esta excelente novela de la prestigiosa escritora mexicana Margo Glantz.

El rastro (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Anagrama

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