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2260815Horizontal Vertigohttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/horizontal-vertigo/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2010139/5f117aab-0a8d-4856-a066-2f6ae79652eb.jpg?v=638520418837000000127141MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.</p><p><em>Horizontal Vertigo:</em> The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City todayone of the worlds leading cultural and financial centers.</p><p>In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: Living in the City, City Characters, Shocks, Crossings, and Ceremonies. What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico Citys genius loci, its spirit of place.</p>...2170113Horizontal Vertigo127141https://www.gandhi.com.mx/horizontal-vertigo/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2010139/5f117aab-0a8d-4856-a066-2f6ae79652eb.jpg?v=638520418837000000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20219781524748890_W3siaWQiOiIxMDhmOTgzYi0wODNmLTQwNjctYWVkNi1kYzA2NDFhOWE2MTIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE0MSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE0LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEyNywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDgtMTBUMDM6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d;9781524748890_W3siaWQiOiIxMDhmOTgzYi0wODNmLTQwNjctYWVkNi1kYzA2NDFhOWE2MTIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE0MSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE0LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEyNywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDgtMTBUMDM6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781524748890_<p>At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.</p><p><em>Horizontal Vertigo:</em> The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City todayone of the worlds leading cultural and financial centers.</p><p>In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: Living in the City, City Characters, Shocks, Crossings, and Ceremonies. What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico Citys genius loci, its spirit of place.</p>...9781524748890_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_1069294a-84fa-3a72-9331-962b42cd3cab_9781524748890;9781524748890_9781524748890Juan VilloroInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-987117ba-4cbf-42b6-ab76-60c49c8b0e60.epub2021-03-23T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group