"Sophisticated wit and playful surrealist fantasy dominate these ingenious and gently mocking tales, by a Guatemalan-born soul mate to the late Jorge Luis Borges. This first English translation of Monterroso's work offers the contents of his two published collections, Complete Works and Other Stories (1959) and Perpetual Motion (1972). They're a monument, if that isn't the wrong word, to this entertaining author's trademark 'concision and wit.'" --Kirkus Reviews "Monterroso is certainly the leading living Guatemalan writer. . . . His microcuentos are finely honed, highly ironic, sophisticated pieces which are both very good literature and excellent pedagogical devices. I would liken his short stories to some of Borges' more accessible ones, with the added dimension of political commitment." "Cynthia Steele, author of Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988: Beyond the Pyramid Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion. This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) and Perpetual Motion (Movimiento perpetuo 1972). Together, they reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

Complete Works and Other Stories (Texas Pan American Series)

Literature & Fiction

MONTERROSO, AUGUSTO

Genre Fiction

University of Texas Press

Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion. This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) and Perpetual Motion (Movimiento perpetuo 1972). Together, they reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

Corral, Will H.

The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as "the most beautiful stories in the world" by Italo Calvino)--an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic's friends, relatives, and attendants.The one and only novel by the renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso--Latin America's most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal narratives Italo Calvino dubbed "the most beautiful stories in the world"--The Rest Is Silence presents the reader with the kaleidoscopic portrait of a provincial Mexican literary critic, one Eduardo Torres, a sort of Don Quixote of the Sunday supplements, whose colossal misreadings are matched only by the scale of his vanity.Presented in the form of a festschrift for the aging writer, this rollicking metafiction offers up a bouquet of highly unreliable reminiscences by Torres's friends, relations, and servants (their accounts skewed by envy, ignorance, and sheer malice), along with a generous selection of the savant's own comically botched attempts at "criticism."Monterroso's narrative is a ludicrous dissection of literary self-conceit, a (Groucho) Marxian skewering of the Mexican literary landscape, and perhaps a wry self-portrait by an author who is profoundly sensible of just how high the stakes of the art of criticism really are--and, consequently, of just how far it has to fall.

The Rest Is Silence

Dramas & Plays

NYRB Classics

Das Schwarze Schaf und andere Fabeln

Arts & Photography

Business of Art

Insel Verlag GmbH

El dinosaurio sigue aquí (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Navona Editorial

Monterroso converts any memory into a theme for a story. In "La vaca", the author filters daily experience until he obtains its essence. Through his talent for transforming life into a fable, he bestows on every creation the breath of simplicity with merciless and condescending humor, Once again and with sharp precision, Augusto Monterroso throws the darts of his wisdom in these twenty essays. Blurb in Spanish: La ironía de Monterroso discurre sobre la literatura: la vaca de Maiakovski, los miedos idiomáticos de Virginia Woolf, los terrores literarios de Raymond Carver, los errores de apreciación de Julian Barnes, la pasión de Pablo Neruda por la gesta de Alonso Ercilla, los otros Aleph que no son de Jorge Luis Borges, la literatura fantástica de Juan Rulfo, la imposición de manos de Juan Carlos Onetti, la vitalidad de Erasmo, la presencia de Lya Kostakovski y Luis Cardoza y Aragón, el humor de León Tolstoi... Símbolo y tema de perpetuas reescrituras, "La vaca" deambula en los ensayos de Augusto Monterroso ostentando su paradójica e inagotable novedad.

La vaca

Contemporary

Alfaguara

La letra E

History & Criticism

LA Oveja Negra Y Demas Fabulas/the Black Sheep and Other Fables (Spanish Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

A collection of short stories designed to raise money for El Salvador offers works by five contemporary authors, including two Nobel prize-winners.

Todo para El Salvador (Spanish Edition)

BENEDETTI,MARIO

FUENTES,CARLOS

United States

Antología del cuento triste

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