Background
As the son of journalist José Luis Sainz, Gustavo Sainz learned how to read at the age of three from his paternal grandmother, and started publishing his work in the city newspapers at the age of ten.
(Gazapo es la novela de un adolescente que acaba de abando...)
Gazapo es la novela de un adolescente que acaba de abandonar a su familia. Restringido por la vida de la ciudad, se ve envuelto en los altibajos de tres amores dificiles, el asedio a la ingenua Gisela, los paseos nocturnos de Mauricio con la corista Bikina, y los escarceos eroticos, quizas imaginarios, de otra pareja. Lo que sucede es tan importante, doloroso y al mismo tiempo tan divertido, que para retenerlo Menelao escribe, hace grabaciones, memoriza y cuando lo expone horas dias, meses despues adquieren ese valor magico de lo que ya no existe. Se rescata asi la picaresca historia de una seduccion. De esta manera, clasica ya de nuestra literatura contemporanea y que ahora se reedita en bolsillo, han dicho: Una obra que rompe la manera mexicana de novelar. Emmanuel Carballo. Esta novela es una brillante celebracion de la comedia de la vida. Para Sainz el placer esta en las personas y su trabajo es un reflejo de estos placeres.
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(Nada sabe de sus secuestradores/ Maniatado, encapuchado, ...)
Nada sabe de sus secuestradores/ Maniatado, encapuchado, tendido sobre flujos corporales, se pregunta: no habra invocado el mismo esas fuerzas oscuras, esa violencia, ese desorden, para librarse de sus dudas y angustias, para mantenerse bajo otra autoridad y ser destruido en forma subrepticia?
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As the son of journalist José Luis Sainz, Gustavo Sainz learned how to read at the age of three from his paternal grandmother, and started publishing his work in the city newspapers at the age of ten.
When he was in primary school, Sainz founded several school magazines, which he continued to do until college. At the age of eighteen, Sainz left home to work as a journalist in the magazine Visión. In 1960, he entered the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he began studying law, but ultimately changed to study literature.
Sainz"s first novel, Gazapo, was published when he was twenty-five and has been translated into fourteen languages.
This novel marked the beginning of the literary movement "la Onda", of which other Mexican writers, such as José Agustín and Parmenides García Saldaña, formed part. In 1968, Sainz travelled to the University of Iowa to participate in the International Writing Program, where he started and completed his second novel.
Sainz"s longest novel,, relates his adventures of this period in Iowa. lieutenant was translated into English by Andrew Hurley and published as "The Princess of the Iron Palace" by Grove Press in 1987.
Sainz was the editor of the magazine Transgresiones.
(Nada sabe de sus secuestradores/ Maniatado, encapuchado, ...)
(Gazapo es la novela de un adolescente que acaba de abando...)
(Translated by Hardie St. Martin. Dust jacket art by Lawre...)
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