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How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America
How to Travel without Seeing Dispatches from the New Latin America Author:Andrés Neuman, Jeffrey Lawrence A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America provides one of the Spanish-speaking world?s most outstanding writers with the occasion for an experimental travelogue somewhere between personal diary and critical essay. — Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the Premio Alfaguara, Andr�s... more » Neuman concludes that world travel consists mostly of ?not seeing.? Turning the fleeting nature of his trip into a creative and critical advantage, he writes on planes and in airports and hotel rooms to produce a work that is whimsical and fun, poetic and aphoristic. A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen, Neuman offers incisive insight into cultural identity and nationality, immigration and globalization, history and language. The enigmatic How to Travel Without Seeing is a must-read for anyone interested in our neighbors to the south and their current literature.« less
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