The Large Glass by MarioBellatin, David Shook Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2016 by Phoneme Media ISBN-13: 978-1-939419-49-1, ISBN: 1-939419-49-2 "In three separate autobiographies, celebrated Mexican innovator Mario Bellatin recounts his childhood trauma as a bathhouse spectacle, the treatment of an illness suffered by his Sufi spiritual mentor, and his complicated search for a quality second-hand Renault 5. Bellatin has already delivered a laugh-out-loud satirical biography of a reclusive (and fictional) Japanese author with 2013's novel, "Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction." Rev ..."
Jacob the Mutant by MarioBellatin, Jacob Steinberg Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2015 by Phoneme Media ISBN-13: 978-1-939419-10-1, ISBN: 1-939419-10-7 "Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Mario Bellatin’s Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside tavern. But when reality shifts, so does Jacob, mutating into another person entirely, while the novella mutates into another story. Cleverly translated by Jacob Steinberg, this Phoneme Media ..."
The Magician of Vienna by Sergio Pitol, George Henson, MarioBellatin, Margo Glantz, Richard E. Kim Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-941920-48-0, ISBN: 1-941920-48-9 "Longlisted for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award"We can read The Magician of Vienna not just as a work of literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store humanity’s imaginary.” Mario Bellatin, author of Beauty SalonThe heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid "Trilogy of Memory" finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life ..."
Mrs. Murakami's Garden by MarioBellatin 58 Pages, Published 2020 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-64605-030-7, ISBN: 1-64605-030-4 "... Recitation translated by Deborah Smith · SOUTH KOREA MARIO BELLATIN · Mrs. Murakami's Garden translated by Heather Cleary · MEXICO EDUARDO BERTI · The Imagined Land translated by Charlotte Coombe · ARGENTINA CARMEN BOULLOSA · Texas: ..."
Shiki Nagaoka(2nd Edition) A Nose for Fiction by MarioBellatin, David Shook Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2017 by Phoneme Media ISBN-13: 978-1-944700-10-2, ISBN: 1-944700-10-2 "Mario Bellatin's playful biography of the most influential and largest-nosed obscure Japanese writer of the last century, Shiki Nagaoka, has proven to be so popular that it is now being reissued by Phoneme Media. With this book, Bellatin succeeded in sparking a huge and richly deserved modern resurgence of interest in Nagaoka's life and work. New fans of the Japanese writer, dubbed "Nagaokites" in the worldwide press, have propelled t ..."
Jacob the Mutant by MarioBellatin 156 Pages, Published 2015 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-939419-37-8, ISBN: 1-939419-37-9 "Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation — a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside tavern ..."
Shiki Nagaoka A Nose for Fiction by MarioBellatin, David Shook Paperback, 78 Pages, Published 2013 by Phoneme Media ISBN-13: 978-1-939419-02-6, ISBN: 1-939419-02-6 "Mario Bellatin, the leading experimental novelist in contemporary Latin America, introduces the neglected work of Shiki Nagaoka to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Bellatin’s highly stylized biography recounts Nagaoka’s early life, including his failed first attempt at love, his decision to enter the monastic life, and his family’s disavowal of him. It contextualizes his untranslatable masterwork, his early use of narrat ..."
Beauty Salon(9th Edition) by MarioBellatin, Kurt Hollander Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2009 by City Lights Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-473-3, ISBN: 0-87286-473-1 ""Like much of Mr. Bellatin's work, Beauty Salon is pithy, allegorical and profoundly disturbing, with a plot that evokes The Plague by Camus or Blindness by Jose Saramago."--New York Times "Including a few details that may linger uncomfortably with the reader for a long time, this is contemporary naturalism as disturbing as it gets."--Booklist A strange plague appears in a large city. Rejected by family and friends, some of the sick hav ..."
The Uruguayan Book of the Dead by MarioBellatin, David Shook Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Phoneme Media ISBN-13: 978-1-944700-11-9, ISBN: 1-944700-11-0 "In this epistolary novel that blurs the line between reality and fiction, Mario Bellatin writes to a mysterious correspondent he has only met once, to discuss the mysteries of the resurrection of the flesh. Bellatin details the fantastical events that unfold over the course of his unusual existence, as he travels with Sergio Pitol to Cuba, is attended to by a blind masseur in an underground storefront at a Mexico City metro station, and ..."
The Large Glass by MarioBellatin, David Shook Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 2015 by Eyewear Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-908998-85-9, ISBN: 1-908998-85-7 "Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by David Shook. In his autobiographies, celebrated Mexican innovator Mario Bellatin recounts his childhood as a bathhouse spectacle, the treatment of an illness suffered by his Sufi spiritual mentor, and his complicated search for a quality second-hand Renault 5. Like the Duchamp sculpture from which it takes its name, Mario Bellatin's THE LARGE GLASS deconstructs the very form it embraces, revealing ..."
Flowers & Mishima's Illustrated Biography / Flores y biografía ilustrada de Mishima(1st Edition) by MarioBellatin, Daniel Parra, Kolin Jordan Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by 7Vientos Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9831392-3-2, ISBN: 0-9831392-3-7 "Using technology that doesn't exist, a professor gives a lecture about a man living his life without a head. A writer who is missing a leg battles isolation and looks for validation among those who would be the subjects of his research.
For the first time, Mario Bellatin's novellas Flowers & Mishima's Illustrated Biography are published in one beautiful hardcover "flip" volume in both the original Spanish and English translation.
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Chinese Checkers by MarioBellatin, Cooper Renner Paperback, 139 Pages, Published 2007 by Ravenna Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9776162-9-9, ISBN: 0-9776162-9-0 "Three modern, edgy and superb stories by famous Mexican author Mario Bellatin--Chinese Checkers, Hero Dogs and My Skin Luminous--translated by Cooper Renner. This, his first book to appear in English, promises us an fascinating, unsettling and important new voice in modern writing. In these stories the narrator speaks rationally, cleanly, carefully, with a sense of precision and progression. But the life he describes is not rational, cl ..."
Beauty Salon (Paperback) by MarioBellatin Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2021 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-64605-073-4, ISBN: 1-64605-073-8 "Mario Bellatin's earth-shattering allegory of plague that brought him to his cult status as auteur of Latin America's most singular literary vision, in a brand-new translation by poet and translator Shook."
Beauty Salon by MarioBellatin 79 Pages, Published 2021 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-64605-075-8, ISBN: 1-64605-075-4 "Spurned by their loved ones and denied treatment by hospitals, the sick are left to die on the streets until a beauty salon owner, whose previous caretaking experience extended only to the exotic fish tanks scattered among his workstations, ..."
Jacobo Reloaded(1st Edition) by MarioBellatin, Sexto Piso Paperback, Published 2013 by Sexto Piso ISBN-13: 978-607-7781-84-4, ISBN: 607-7781-84-3 "Brand New. Ship worldwide"
Pieter Hugo(1st Edition) La Cucaracha by Pieter Hugo, Ashraf Jamal, MarioBellatin, Joseph Burrin Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2020 by Rm ISBN-13: 978-84-17975-15-9, ISBN: 84-17975-15-2 "Themes of mortality and ordinariness in modern-day Mexico This is Cape Town-based photographer Pieter Hugo's (born 1976) homage to Mexico, in portraits, landscapes and still-life vignettes with bright shades of pink, blue and green."
Gallinas de madera(1st Edition) by MarioBellatin Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2012 by Sexto Piso ISBN-13: 978-84-15601-22-7, ISBN: 84-15601-22-0 "En Gallinas de madera confluyen dos textos que giran en torno a dos de los grandes escritores del siglo xx: Bohumil Hrabal y Alain Robbe-Grillet. En el primero, titulado «En las playas de Montauk las moscas crecen más de la cuenta», un hombre prueba el ácido lisérgico en la ciudad de Berlín, y se sienta decepcionado en la Alexanderplatz al considerar que acaba de ser objeto de un timo. De pronto pasa una mujer con un perro en brazos qu ..."
