Description
Book SynopsisThese translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.
Trade ReviewSophisticated wit and playful surrealist fantasy dominate these ingenious and gently mocking tales, by a Guatemalan-born soul mate to the late Jorge Luis Borges. This first English translation of Monterroso’s work offers the contents of his two published collections,
Complete Works and Other Stories (1959) and
Perpetual Motion (1972). They’re a monument, if that isn’t the wrong word, to this entertaining author’s trademark ‘concision and wit.’ * Kirkus Reviews *
Table of Contents
- Before and After Augusto Monterroso by Will H. Corral
- Complete Works (And Other Stories)
- Mister Taylor
- One Out of Three
- Finished Symphony
- First Lady
- The Eclipse
- Diogenes Too
- The Dinosaur
- Leopoldo (His Labors)
- The Concert
- The Centennial
- I Don’t Want to Deceive You
- Cow
- Complete Works
- Perpetual Motion
- Flies
- Perpetual Motion
- It’s All the Same
- Regarding Attributions
- Homage to Masoch
- The World
- The Brain Drain
- The Endymion Report
- I Know You, Mask
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Jorge Luis Borges
- Fecundity
- You Tell Sarabia That I Said He Should Hire Her and Place Her Here or Wherever, That I’ll Explain Later
- Homo Scriptor
- Under Other Wreckage
- How to Stop Being a Monkey
- How I Got Rid of Five Hundred Books
- The Maids
- Solemnity and Eccentricity
- Winning the Street
- Humor
- Paradise
- It May Be True
- Living Together
- Height and Poetry
- Christmas. New Year’s. Whatever
- Choose One
- Ever-Present Danger
- The Outdoor Poet
- Tender Rose
- Brevity
- Errata and Final Notice
