Salvador Elizondo

Born in 1932 in Mexico City, Salvador Elizondo lived in many parts of the world and engaged in a remarkable range of literary styles. Like his friend Jorge Luis Borges, Elizondo was a consummate game player and reveled in formal invention. He is perhaps most well-known for his novel Farobeuf: la crónica de un instante, a Joycean project in which the narrator returns again and again to a single moment in a whirling, phenomenological autopsy, an experiment meant to arrive not so much at an answer but in a reorientation of perception and of what Mexican literature might be capable.