Complete Works and Other Stories

Name: Complete Works and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780292751842

ISBN-10: 0292751842

ISBN-13: 9780292751842

Edition: 1995

Authors: Augusto Monterroso, Edith Grossman, Will H. Corral

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"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' 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' 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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 170
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Before and After Augusto Monterroso



Mister Taylor


One Out of Three


Finished Symphony


First Lady


The Eclipse


Diogenes Too


Leopoldo (His Labors)


The Concert


The Centennial


I Don't Want to Deceive You


Cow


Complete Works