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MartÃn and Marvin centers on MartÃn Klein, a Chicago-based Jewish Mexican, his friendships and love affairs, his family and artistic obsessions, his travels and misadventures. But the book is especially about MartÃn's relationship with Marvin, a Jewish-American Latin Americanist-their points in common, their differences and their ties with the Latin worlds they encounter. The book opens with a novella-sized text tracing incidents relating to Marvin's life and death. Two comic stories follow MartÃn, Marvin and Marvin's wife on travels in Guatemala and Italy. Then come three dream stories haunted by MartÃn's personality and preoccupations, as well as Marvin's obsession with his lost friend.
MartÃn and Marvin centers on MartÃn Klein, a Chicago-based Jewish Mexican, his friendships and love affairs, his family and artistic obsessions, his travels and misadventures. But the book is especially about MartÃn's relationship with Marvin, a Jewish-American Latin Americanist-their points in common, their differences and their ties with the Latin worlds they encounter. The book opens with a novella-sized text tracing incidents relating to Marvin's life and death. Two comic stories follow MartÃn, Marvin and Marvin's wife on travels in Guatemala and Italy. Then come three dream stories haunted by MartÃn's personality and preoccupations, as well as Marvin's obsession with his lost friend.
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