Complete Works and Other Stories

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.

Author: Augusto Monterroso
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.53w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780292751842
ISBN10: 0292751842
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)

About the Author
Augusto Monterroso is the internationally renowned author of nine books, including The Black Sheep and Other Fables. A resident of Mexico since 1956, he won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico's highest literary honor, in 1975.Edith Grossman is an awa