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 compass...
The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as “the most beautiful stories in the world” by Italo Calvino) -- an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of ...