Cerca del fuego

novel by Agustín

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  • In José Agustín

    The novel Cerca del fuego (1986; “Near the Fire”) is a mordantly humorous indictment of life in Mexico City, told by an amnesiac after six years’ absence from the city. In 1994 Agustín published El viejo y el mar, a translation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man…

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