by Sergio Pitol · Serpent à plumes (Le) · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782268065533
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In May 1986, during the perestroika, a Mexican diplomat stationed in Prague is invited to Georgia as a writer. He keeps a travel journal during which he is meant to meet other writers. However, as glasnost unfolds, he is taken on a wild journey through Moscow and Leningrad, turning into a series of grotesque scenes and joyful calamities, ending in an irreverent Tbilisi. Written by a wonderfully eccentric and dreamy scholar, this book is neither an autobiography nor a simple travelogue, but a journey through centuries of art, culture, and the sacred forest of Russian literature, from Pushkin to Gogol and Marina Tsvetaeva.
