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Book Synopsis
A biting commentary on the follies of mankind, by one of Mexico's outstanding authors.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Translator’s Acknowledgments
  • BESTIARY
    • Prologue (1957)
    • The Rhinoceros (1958)
    • The Toad (1951)
    • The Bison (1959)
    • Birds of Prey (1959)
    • The Ostrich (1959)
    • Insectiad (1951)
    • The Water Buffalo (1959)
    • Felines (1959)
    • The Bear (1959)
    • The Owl (1959)
    • The Elephant (1959)
    • Moles (1951)
    • The Camel Family (1959)
    • The Boa (1955)
    • The Hippopotamus (1958)
    • The Zebra (1959)
    • The Giraffe (1959)
    • The Hyena (1958)
    • Deer (1959)
    • The Seals (1958)
    • Water Birds (1959)
    • Monkeys (1959)
    • The Axolotl (1960)
  • PROSODY
    • Alarm for the Year 2000 (1961)
    • Homage to Otto Weininger (1960)
    • Post Scriptum (1960)
    • Telemaquia (1960)
    • Inferno V (1959)
    • Allons Voir si la Rose (1961)
    • The Language of Cervantes (1959)
    • The Trap (1960)
    • Disarmed Gentleman (1959)
    • From L’osservatore (1961)
    • Either Or (1959)
    • Achtung! Lebende Tiere! (1957)
    • Liberty (1951)
    • The Encounter (1952)
    • The Last Wish (1959)
    • Imaginary Woman (1951)
    • Epithalamium (1951)
    • Elegy (1951)
    • A Theory on Dulcinea (1951)
    • Metamorphosis (1959)
    • Flower of Ancient Rhetoric (1951)
    • Flash (1955)
    • The Diamond (1951)
    • Honeymoon (1955)
    • The Map of Lost Objects (1955)
    • Mad with Love (1951)
    • Gravity (1951)
    • The Cave (1952)
    • Others’ Possessions (1955)
  • CONFABULARIO
    • Parturient Montes (1953)
    • I’m Telling You the Truth (1951)
    • Interview (1949)
    • The Rhinoceros (1950)
    • The Bird Spider (1949)
    • Figment of a Dream (1949)
    • A Reputation (1952)
    • The Switchman (1951)
    • The Disciple (1950)
    • Eve (1949)
    • The Assassin (1949)
    • Small Town Affair (1952)
    • The Song of Peronelle (1950)
    • Autrui (1951)
    • Sinesius of Rhodes (1952)
    • Monologue of the Man Who Won’t Give In
    • Epitaph (1950)
    • The Prodigious Milligram (1951)
    • Cocktail Party (1959)
    • Aristotle’s Lay (1950)
    • The Condemned One (1951)
    • My Daily Bread (1952)
    • Notes Full of Rancor (1950)
    • Nabonides (1949)
    • You and I (1959)
    • The Lighthouse (1949)
    • In Memoriam (1952)
    • Balthasar Gérard, 1555–1582 (1955)
    • Baby H.P. (1952)
    • Announcement (1961)
    • On Ballistics (1952)
    • News Item from Liberia (1959)
    • A Tamed Woman (1954)
  • VARIOUS INVENTIONS
    • Ballad (1952)
    • The Convert (1944)
    • A Pact with the Devil (1942)
    • Paul (1947)
    • Parable of the Exchange (1953)
    • Letter to a Shoemaker (1945)
    • God’s Silence (1943)
    • The Fraud (1946)
    • The Crow Catcher (1949)
    • Private Life (1947)
    • He Did Good While He Lived (1941)

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 1/1/1964 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292710306, 978-0292710306
      ISBN10: 0292710305

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A biting commentary on the follies of mankind, by one of Mexico's outstanding authors.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • Translator’s Acknowledgments
      • BESTIARY
        • Prologue (1957)
        • The Rhinoceros (1958)
        • The Toad (1951)
        • The Bison (1959)
        • Birds of Prey (1959)
        • The Ostrich (1959)
        • Insectiad (1951)
        • The Water Buffalo (1959)
        • Felines (1959)
        • The Bear (1959)
        • The Owl (1959)
        • The Elephant (1959)
        • Moles (1951)
        • The Camel Family (1959)
        • The Boa (1955)
        • The Hippopotamus (1958)
        • The Zebra (1959)
        • The Giraffe (1959)
        • The Hyena (1958)
        • Deer (1959)
        • The Seals (1958)
        • Water Birds (1959)
        • Monkeys (1959)
        • The Axolotl (1960)
      • PROSODY
        • Alarm for the Year 2000 (1961)
        • Homage to Otto Weininger (1960)
        • Post Scriptum (1960)
        • Telemaquia (1960)
        • Inferno V (1959)
        • Allons Voir si la Rose (1961)
        • The Language of Cervantes (1959)
        • The Trap (1960)
        • Disarmed Gentleman (1959)
        • From L’osservatore (1961)
        • Either Or (1959)
        • Achtung! Lebende Tiere! (1957)
        • Liberty (1951)
        • The Encounter (1952)
        • The Last Wish (1959)
        • Imaginary Woman (1951)
        • Epithalamium (1951)
        • Elegy (1951)
        • A Theory on Dulcinea (1951)
        • Metamorphosis (1959)
        • Flower of Ancient Rhetoric (1951)
        • Flash (1955)
        • The Diamond (1951)
        • Honeymoon (1955)
        • The Map of Lost Objects (1955)
        • Mad with Love (1951)
        • Gravity (1951)
        • The Cave (1952)
        • Others’ Possessions (1955)
      • CONFABULARIO
        • Parturient Montes (1953)
        • I’m Telling You the Truth (1951)
        • Interview (1949)
        • The Rhinoceros (1950)
        • The Bird Spider (1949)
        • Figment of a Dream (1949)
        • A Reputation (1952)
        • The Switchman (1951)
        • The Disciple (1950)
        • Eve (1949)
        • The Assassin (1949)
        • Small Town Affair (1952)
        • The Song of Peronelle (1950)
        • Autrui (1951)
        • Sinesius of Rhodes (1952)
        • Monologue of the Man Who Won’t Give In
        • Epitaph (1950)
        • The Prodigious Milligram (1951)
        • Cocktail Party (1959)
        • Aristotle’s Lay (1950)
        • The Condemned One (1951)
        • My Daily Bread (1952)
        • Notes Full of Rancor (1950)
        • Nabonides (1949)
        • You and I (1959)
        • The Lighthouse (1949)
        • In Memoriam (1952)
        • Balthasar Gérard, 1555–1582 (1955)
        • Baby H.P. (1952)
        • Announcement (1961)
        • On Ballistics (1952)
        • News Item from Liberia (1959)
        • A Tamed Woman (1954)
      • VARIOUS INVENTIONS
        • Ballad (1952)
        • The Convert (1944)
        • A Pact with the Devil (1942)
        • Paul (1947)
        • Parable of the Exchange (1953)
        • Letter to a Shoemaker (1945)
        • God’s Silence (1943)
        • The Fraud (1946)
        • The Crow Catcher (1949)
        • Private Life (1947)
        • He Did Good While He Lived (1941)

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