This biting commentary on the follies of mankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing--at themselves as well as at others. With his surgical intelligence, Juan Jose Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the false values and vices, the hidden diseases of society. Confabulario total, 1941-1961, of which this book is a translation, combines three earlier books--Varia invencion (1949), Confabulario (1952), Punta de plata (1958)--and numerous later pieces.
Although some of the pieces have a noticeably...
This biting commentary on the follies of mankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing--at themselves as well as at oth...
Ruben Dario (1867-1916), the undisputed standard-bearer of the Modernist movement in Hispanic letters, was born in Nicaragua. In 1886 he went to Chile, where he published Azul (1888), his first important book of poems and stories. Later he lived for extended periods in Argentina, Spain, and France, and in these countries produced his best work: compelling poems of beauty, style, and dignity, especially Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905). The perfection of form, exotic essences, and rich ornamentation of his earlier work give way in his most mature poems to...
Ruben Dario (1867-1916), the undisputed standard-bearer of the Modernist movement in Hispanic letters, was born in Nicaragua. In 1886 he went to Ch...
