ABOUT THIS BOOK: Later, with a group of friends, we'd venture further, to the country house of Dr. Raoul Fournier and his wife Carolina Amor. It was a weekend house, outlying and quiet, in the rustic outskirts of the San Jeronimo district, where Beatriz Scharrer now lives with her family. In the middle of all that—between Insurgentes Sur and San Jeronimo, with no neighbors around—there was always this impressive site. Was it a fort, a school, a hotel? In those days the space that is today—and for a half-century has been—the San Angel Inn restaurant, evinced a timeless, solemn and mysterious architecture, the contrast to the modernity that Juan O'Gorman had highlighted in Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's neighboring residences. Among the many marvelous aspects of the present volume by Beatriz Scharrer is her reminder that this was a space of mystery even before each of us remembers it (which is why I begin with my own memories). It is the key to understanding Mexico City, the oldest surviving city in the Americas (founded 1325). That there was a city before the city is this book's won-derful secret. It spurs an awareness among Mexicans: if we come from so far away, how far can we go? What holds us back? Beatriz Scharrer offers us a response that is as clear, elegant and precise as her writing. The San Angel Inn, our permanent, past and even current meeting place, hearkens back to the pre-Hispanic settlement of Tenanitla, born perhaps of a volca-

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