Pablo Ortiz Monasterio: The Last City

by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio

"Stendhal's famous definition of the novel--a mirror carried along a road--could well apply to The Last City. But Ortiz Monasterio's is a selective mirror, precise and implacable, which retains only that which is worth preserving." --Jos Emilio Pacheco
Mexico City presents a post-apocalyptic paradigm, rivaled only, perhaps, by Los Angeles. It is a metropolis ravaged by immense poverty, crime and the ill-effects of overpopulation. As...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944092322
• ISBN13: 9780944092323
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.7"