by Juan José Arreola · Planeta-Agostini. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475514406
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«Confabulario personal» is an anthology of short stories and fragments by Mexican writer Juan José Arreola, published by Planeta-Agostini in paperback.
Anthology of short stories and fragments by Juan José Arreola combining fantasy, irony and reflection. The anthology, fragmentary and open in character, explores the human condition, love and the absurd in registers ranging from lyricism to the grotesque gaze, influenced by the fable and the prose poem.
Paperback edition published in Barcelona by Planeta-Agostini in 1985. Text in Spanish.
Recommended for readers of Latin American short fiction and for those seeking twentieth-century Mexican short story classics.
Juan José Arreola Zúñiga was a Mexican writer, academic, and actor. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the 20th century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he used elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Although he is little known outside Mexico, Arreola has served as the 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. Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered one of the masters of the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. Arreola is primarily known for his short stories and he only published one novel, La feria.
