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Complete Works and Other Stories Augusto Monterroso

Complete Works and Other Stories By Augusto Monterroso

Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso

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Summary

These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

Complete Works and Other Stories Summary

Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso

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 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 *

About Augusto Monterroso

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 Garcia Marquez, and Maqroll and The Adventures of Maqroll, by Alvaro Mutis.

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

Additional information

NGR9780292751842
9780292751842
0292751842
Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso
Augusto Monterroso
Texas Pan American Series
New
Paperback
University of Texas Press
19960101
170
N/A
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