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      Palinuro of Mexico

      by Fernando Del Paso
      Published
      Aug 1996
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      557
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      Like those writers to whom he has been compared--Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, James Joyce, and Rabelais--del Paso draws upon myth, science, and world literature to expand his particular story to universal proportions. Telling the story of a medical medical student who's engaged in an incestuous affair with his cousin, the novel satirizes advertising, politics, pornography, and mythology, while at the same time celebrating the body with a thoroughness that only a student of medicine could manage.

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      Jul 1996 Dalkey Archive Press ISBN13 9781564780959 ISBN10 1564780953
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