Confabulario and Other Inventions - 9780292710306

Confabulario and Other InventionsAuthor(s): Juan Jos Arreola, George D. Schade, Kelly Fearing\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292710306, 978-0292710306\nSynopsis\nThis biting commentary on the follies of humankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing-at themselves as well as at others. With his surgical intelligence, Juan Jos Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the false values and vices, the hidden diseases of society. Confabulario total, [tel], of which this book is a translation, combines three earlier books-Varia invencin [tel], Confabulario [tel], Punta de plata [tel]-and numerous later pieces. \n\n Although some of the pieces have a noticeably Mexican orientation, most of them transcend strictly regional themes to interpret the social scene in aspects common to all civilized cultures. Arreolas view is not limited; much of his sophistication comes from hi.