By Juan José Arreola,Kelly Fearing,George D. Schade
ISBN-10: 0292710305
ISBN-13: 9780292710306
ISBN-10: 0292731965
ISBN-13: 9780292731967
This biting observation at the follies of mankind via a famous Mexican writer cuts deeply but leaves readers laughing—at themselves in addition to at others. together with his surgical intelligence, Juan José Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the fake values and vices, the hidden illnesses of society. Confabulario overall, 1941–1961, of which this ebook is a translation, combines 3 past books—Varia invención (1949), Confabulario (1952), Punta de plata (1958)—and various later pieces.
Although a few of the items have a substantially Mexican orientation, such a lot of them go beyond strictly nearby issues to interpret the social scene in features universal to all civilized cultures. Arreola’s view isn't really constrained; a lot of his sophistication comes from his huge, deep, and sundry wisdom of current and prior, and from his virtually informal use either one of this information and of his perception into its that means for humanity. His familiarity with many little-known arts and sciences, quite a few literatures, background, anthropology, and psychology, and his telling allusions to this wealthy lode of truth, bring up the reader’s get pleasure from his realized yet witty, scalding yet poetic, satire.
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