Álvaro Enrigue

Novelist and essayist

1969-08-06

Álvaro Enrigue is a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and academic.

Books by Álvaro Enrigue

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Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.
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Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'
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Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
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Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.
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In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.
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Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
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