✍ Scribed by Rodrigo Fresán
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An X-ray of Mexico City, a novel city, seen through the eyes of its frantic protagonists led by Martín Mantra, a film director and member of an insane Mexican family abducted by a telenovela.
What do a nostalgic brain tumor, a specter haunted by masked fighters watching his life and death on television from an Aztec underworld, and a hypothetical android in ruins have in common?
The simple answer to this complex question is: a) Mexico Federal District, apocalyptic metropolis where everything that can happen and does not happen inevitably happens; b) the mysterious shadow of Martín Mantra: prodigy film director in search of the total film, guerrilla leader, flamboyant messiah, religious totem, and, above all, member of an insane Mexican family abducted by a telenovela; and c) bad movies and good revolutions, spicy food and polluted air, ancient pyramids and modern airports, long-suffering mothers and hallucinated fathers, famous tourists and anonymous mariachis, day of the dead and night of the living, spilled blood and tequila in the veins.
All this and much more in a city of a novel and in the novel of those cities.
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