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This biting commentary on the follies of mankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing—at themselves as well as at others. With his surgical intelligence, Juan José Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the false values and vices, the hidden diseases of society. Confabulario total, 1941–1961, of which this book is a translation, combines three earlier books—Varia invención (1949), Confabulario (1952), Punta de plata (1958)—and numerous later pieces. Although some of the pieces have a noticeably Mexican orientation, most of them transcend strictly regional themes to interpret the social scene in aspects common to all civilized cultures. Arreola’s view is not limited; much of his sophistication comes from his broad, deep, and varied knowledge of present and past, and from his almost casual use both of this knowledge and of his insight into its meaning for humanity. His familiarity with many little-known arts and sciences, numerous literatures, history, anthropology, and psychology, and his telling allusions to this rich lode of fact, increase the reader’s delight in his learned but witty, scalding but poetic, satire.

Un año después de que Juan Rulfo publicó El llano en llamas, Juan José Arreola puso en circulación Confabulario. Después vendrían Bestiario, Cantos del mal dolor, Prosodia, Palíndroma, La feria, entre otros, que ahora están reunidos en el presente volumen.Escritor autodidacta que aprendió a leer de oídas, que nunca concluyó la primaria, Juan José Arreola fue un autor de largo aliento, aunque su narrativa sea medida y lacónica.Una obra fundamental que, junto con la de Rulfo, cambió el curso de nuestras letras.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONMexican short story writer, novelist, essayist, nonfiction writer, and playwright.Hailed as Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the twentieth century, Arreola is best known for his allegorical tales that explore the nature of human existence in a haphazard, dreamlike, and sometimes insane world.Arreola's short fiction has been compared to that of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus. Although he is little known outside his native Mexico, Arreola has served as literary inspiration for a legion of Mexican writers who have sought to transform their country's realistic literary tradition by introducing elements of magical realism, satire, and allegory.

Un año después de que Juan Rulfo publicó El llano en llamas, Juan José Arreola puso en circulación Confabulario. Después vendrían Bestiario, Cantos del mal dolor, Prosodia, Palíndroma, La feria, entre otros, que ahora están reunidos en el presente volumen.Escritor autodidacta que aprendió a leer de oídas, que nunca concluyó la primaria, Juan José Arreola fue un autor de largo aliento, aunque su narrativa sea medida y lacónica.Una obra fundamental que, junto con la de Rulfo, cambió el curso de nuestras letras.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONMexican short story writer, novelist, essayist, nonfiction writer, and playwright.Hailed as Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the twentieth century, Arreola is best known for his allegorical tales that explore the nature of human existence in a haphazard, dreamlike, and sometimes insane world.Arreola's short fiction has been compared to that of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus. Although he is little known outside his native Mexico, Arreola has served as literary inspiration for a legion of Mexican writers who have sought to transform their country's realistic literary tradition by introducing elements of magical realism, satire, and allegory.