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ISBN-10: 0292751842
ISBN-13: 9780292751842
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publish Date: 01/01/1996
Dimensions: 8.53" L, 5.53" W, 0.57" H

Complete Works and Other Stories

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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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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"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0292751842
ISBN-13: 9780292751842
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publish Date: 01/01/1996
Dimensions: 8.53" L, 5.53" W, 0.57" H
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