The Galaxies Within.

B&A BOOKS THE ARTS The Galaxies Within Claudio Lomnitz's family history MOST WRITERS ARE CONTENT TO WRITE A book once; others, after publishing a first version, go back and rewrite it over and over again. The cover of the Spanish edition features a stunning black-and-white photo of Lomnitz's maternal grandfather, Misha Adler, who witnessed firsthand the upheaval of East European Jews, with an Indigenous person who likely witnessed firsthand the upheaval of his own communities at the same time. Lomnitz begins his story with his grandparents - and in particular with Misha Adler, the one who appears on the cover of the Spanish edition. Lomnitz, whose Death and the Idea of Mexico follows closely in his mother's footsteps, has more global aspirations - first, because he performs his career bilingually, connecting with two distinct, at times heterogeneous readerships, something I don't believe Larissa succeeded at by comparison. [Extracted from the article]

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