Overview

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.

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Author:   Augusto Monterroso ,  Edith Grossman ,  Will H. Corral
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780292751842

ISBN 10:   0292751842
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   01 January 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Before and After Augusto Monterroso by Will H. Corral Complete Works (And Other Stories) Mister Taylor One Out of Three Finished Symphony First Lady The Eclipse Diogenes Too The Dinosaur Leopoldo (His Labors) The Concert The Centennial I Don’t Want to Deceive You Cow Complete Works Perpetual Motion Flies Perpetual Motion It’s All the Same Regarding Attributions Homage to Masoch The World The Brain Drain The Endymion Report I Know You, Mask The Advantages and Disadvantages of Jorge Luis Borges Fecundity You Tell Sarabia That I Said He Should Hire Her and Place Her Here or Wherever, That I’ll Explain Later Homo Scriptor Under Other Wreckage How to Stop Being a Monkey How I Got Rid of Five Hundred Books The Maids Solemnity and Eccentricity Winning the Street Humor Paradise It May Be True Living Together Height and Poetry Christmas. New Year’s. Whatever Choose One Ever-Present Danger The Outdoor Poet Tender Rose Brevity Errata and Final Notice

Reviews

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 *

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 *

Author Information

Augusto Monterroso is the internationally renowned author of nine books, including The Black Sheep and Other Fables. A resident of Mexico since 1956, he won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico's highest literary honor, in 1975. Edith Grossman is an award-winning translator of contemporary Latin American literature. Her recent publications include Strange Pilgrims and Of Love and Other Demons, by Gabriel García Márquez, and Maqroll and The Adventures of Maqroll, by Alvaro Mutis.

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