The Remains

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (Shortlist)

"An erudite meditation on the link between mortality and the nature of art." —Publishers Weekly

"An original and highly recommended masterstroke." —Library Journal

"A fine novel, full of engaging curiosities." —Irish Times

"Reading Margo Glantz's virtuoso novel is like letting oneself go while listening to Glenn Gould interpret Mozart." —Ilan Stavans , author of ON BORROWED WORDS: A MEMOIR OF LANGUAGE and DICTIONARY DAYS: A DEFINING PASSION

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Praise for Margo Glantz

"Glantz’s writing is raw and vulnerable, much like the women she writes about. This complex portrait of all-consuming desire is tough to shake." —Publishers Weekly

"Apparitions is short, complex, unusual and abounding in breathtaking descriptions: reading it exposes us to an almost mortal risk." —Mónica Mansour

"Margo Glantz has constructed a powerful and ambiguous novel." —Rocío Silva-Santisteban

"I believe that with this book Glantz has renewed the genre (...). She has recovered the pristine nakedness of the body and the energy of its most secret drives." —Augusto Roa Bastos , author of I THE SUPREME

"A bold and unclassifiable novel that combines audacity with a traditional vision of relationships, not only sexual, between men and women, involving both the mystical tradition and the author's interest in the figure of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." —Publishers Weekly

"Glantz writes about and from the body, exploring through words the limits of meaning to make literature the deepest of joys." —El Mundo

"Margo Glantz uses the model of the erotic novel to subvert it with an existential component, and dialogues across time with Pasolini, Kawabata and Bataille." —infoLibre

"Inspired by the erotic tradition of mysticism, Margo Glantz explores the limits of the female body; between the dark and the profane, the beautiful and the disturbing (...) The novel (...) is always accompanied by music, which turns the writing into a marvellous score." —La Vanguardia

"An icon in Latin American literature and feminism, few things seem to hold back the Mexican writer Margo Glantz. " —El Español