"This book addresses the life and work of Sergio Pitol during the years from 1963 to 1988. The research is based on the writer's personal archive - which is kept at Princeton University - the Foreign Relations archive, oral testimonies, bibliographic references and periodicals. The methodology we follow is the result of a conjunction between literary sociology, history and literary analysis. The years that this volume addresses are those of travel and stays abroad; those of creative learning, of writing all of his stories and a large part of his novels, and of the translation of authors until then unknown to the Spanish-speaking public. Pitol became one of the most original and innovative authors of the Mexican literary tradition and this book explains his journey"--