Salvador Elizondo (Mexico City, 1932-2006) was one of the most amazing Mexican writers of the second half of the twentieth century. His first novel, chronicling Farabeuf or an instant (Joaquin Mortiz, 1965) was an innovation in the literature to create an unusual verbal language with the principle of film editing and mixing their knowledge of Chinese and French. It gave life to the character of Dr. Farabeuf, famous nineteenth century French physician, author of several treaties surgery. Well received by critics and audiences then, the novel won him the prize Xavier Villaurrutia 1965 and was translated into many languages. A Farabeuf followed him: Narda or summer (1966), The Hypogeum secret (1968), List of writing (1969), The Picture of Zoe and Other Lies (1969), The grafógrafo (1972), Miscast (1981) Camera lucida (1983), Elsinore, a notebook (1988), Estanquillo (1992), Theory of Hell (1993), Neocosmos (1999) and former Past (2007).
Besides writer, essayist and translator of Paul Valery, Malcolm Lowry and Edgar Allan Poe, among others, for twenty five years Elizondo gave several lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, and was adviser of the Mexican Center of Writers, member the Mexican Academy of Language, emeritus professor at the National College of Mexico and National Literature Prize in 1992. Along with Octavio Paz founded the journals Plural and Vuelta.
He died in Mexico City on March 29, 2006, leaving an unpublished work of eighty-three notebooks of his diaries, ranging from infancy to three days before his death and give a staggering thirty-two thousand pages writing illustrated with drawings.