Background
Ignacio Solares was born on January 15, 1945, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
University City, Coyoacan, 04510 Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Ignacio studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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(Delirium tremens, a serious medical disorder caused by ab...)
Delirium tremens, a serious medical disorder caused by abrupt withdrawal from alcohol, is explored in a compelling way. Interviews with 10 individuals constitute real-life versions of descents into hell, the social and emotional trauma that lead to and result from delirium tremens, and courageous efforts made to overcome major challenges.
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1979
(The stories of these two men intertwine in Anonymous. The...)
The stories of these two men intertwine in Anonymous. Their lives come together in a completely unexpected way. Rich scenes populate the novelmany of them highly ironic, others deeply poignant.
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1979
(Solares describes Mexico's different social classes with ...)
Solares describes Mexico's different social classes with Dickensian realism. His focus on young protagonists, unusual in Mexican literature, opens a window onto problems of children's vulnerability that know no national borders. At the same time, his use of elements of the fantastic and the paranormal, and his evocative writing style, make reading his novels a most pleasurable experience.
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1998
(Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic peri...)
Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who as a young man witnessed the events, narrates the novel and in its very first pages commits an act of resistance that will haunt him the rest of his life. In his old age, he begins to reflect on the history of Mexico, as well as his complicated love affairs with both his fiancée and her mother, which play out against the tumultuous backdrop of the invasion and occupation. Told with humor and pathos, Yankee Invasion paints a riveting portrait of an event that, though little known in America, still reverberates in Mexico today. Vivid descriptions capture the streets, cafés, cantinas, and drawing rooms of 19th-century Mexico City.
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2009
Ignacio Solares was born on January 15, 1945, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
In 1965, Ignacio was educated at a Jesuit high school. He also studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
After graduating from university, Solares found regular work as a writer and editor for various newspapers and literary journals. Although he had begun writing his first stories at age twelve, during this period he focused entirely on journalistic writing. A stint editing the cultural supplement El diorama de la cultura for the newspaper Excelsior brought Solares into regular contact with such literary giants as Octavio Paz, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Alejo Carpentier. Towards the end of this period he returned to writing fiction, and his first book, the short-story collection El hombre habitado, appeared in 1975. These eight stories explore the themes of fear and transformation that have continually interested the author, and several of them have been expanded into novels.
In 1976 Solares published his first novel, Puerto del cielo. This work contains many of the elements that have come to characterize the author’s work: a first-person narrator who relates events objectively, in a matter-of-fact tone; a mystical apparition; and the everyday details of ordinary life in Mexico. Besides his many works of fiction, Solares has also produced works of memoir, drama, and nonfiction; the 1979 work Delirium tremens, for example, is a documentary narrative that explores the nature of alcoholism through its sufferers’ hallucinatory experiences. In the 1990 memoir De cuerpo entero, the author explores his life in a series of chapters that address many of the themes - spiritualism, death, and the self - that also appear in his fiction. He has also continued to explore Mexico’s history in more recent novels, such as 1996’s Columbus, which relates the events surrounding Pancho Villa’s invasion of the United States during the Mexican Revolution.
Solares is currently a faculty member at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he served as the Coordinator of Cultural Activities for Literature and Arts and as director of the Department of Theater and Dance. He is also the editor of the cultural supplement to the weekly magazine Siempre.
(Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic peri...)
2009(Delirium tremens, a serious medical disorder caused by ab...)
1979(Solares describes Mexico's different social classes with ...)
1998(The stories of these two men intertwine in Anonymous. The...)
1979Solares' works dramatize diverse aspects of everyday Mexican life and are laced with ingenious incursions into the unreal. The author uses these fantastic and religious elements to explore human fears and dreams, and while his works often explore complex metaphysical themes, they do so in a deceptively simple manner that captures the reader’s interest.
The author’s ability to capture the interest of his readers is one of his major assets, which makes him one of contemporary Mexico’s most talented novelists.
Quotes from others about the person
"Solares’s works always deal with some trans-realistic phenomenon, which he manages to make very real. This effect is created, in large part, by the novelist’s insistence on working out a carefully constructed narrative based on sympathetic, believable characters." - John Brushwood
"In his narratives, fantasy and dreams are as much a part of reality as working to pay the rent. Solares’s novels have the simplicity of a fairytale and the complexity of a metaphysical treatise."