by Juan José Arreola · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788490062722
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«La feria» is the novel by Juan José Arreola, published by RBA in hardback (216 pages, in Spanish).
The action is set in Zapotlán el Grande during the traditional feast of Saint Joseph. The city bustles with all kinds of people: landowners, peasants, indigenous people, children, lawyers... Their voices cross in a mosaic of fragments mixing the urban and the rural. The result is a choral and poetic portrait of local life, full of stories and anecdotes.
Novel originally published in 1963 and reissued in 2012 in the RBA Narrativas collection, with a prologue by Joaquín Marco.
Recommended for readers of Mexican fiction and for those who appreciate fragmentary works with a strong costumbrista feel.
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.
