An ersatz documentary about the docu form itself, while at the same time focusing on Mexican writer Mario Bellatin, “Winter House” is an acquired taste. Bellatin is a one-armed experimental artist ...
LO QUE ESCRIBE MARIO Bellatin no es literatura; es TransLiteratura.¹ Es una escritura que sale constantemente de sí misma, que busca el fuera de campo 2 de la literatura al atravesar otras ...
For several months this year, Mario Bellatin, one of Mexico's best-known novelists, waged a quixotic war against Grupo Planeta, the largest publishing group in the Spanish-language world. An eccentric ...
An extremely slender, sad tale by Bellatín recounts a gay man's reflections on the waning days of sexual excess and the specter of death wrought by AIDS, though here AIDS is a mysterious, nameless ...
Mario Bellatin, trans. from the Spanish by Stephen Beachy. Deep Vellum, $15.95 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-64605-338-4 A woman embarks on a surreal quest in the delightfully bizarre and nightmarish ...
MEXICO CITY - In Mexico, there is a strange practice known as the "art of renting." If you're arrested for drunken driving, for example, you can pay someone to spend two nights in jail in your place.