El testigo

Author: Juan Villoro
- Fiction
- Anagrama 
- ISBN: 9788433972842
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Martha Berman

The first classic novel to appear in Mexico after the political changes, The Witness offers the reader a fully realized panorama of a country in which the vestiges and phantoms of the past coexist daily with the wounds of a schizophrenic and convulsive present. Under a climate which has reached a boiling point, Juan Villoro (1956) relates in a precise and intelligent style the odyssey of a Mexican professor who returns to his native land after a long absence. As in the Homeric epic, he discovers that the return to Ithaca is impossible.

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