Confabulario (Cuentos) / Confabulary (Short Stories)

Es una invitaci?n a adentrarnos en una prosa aguda y corruscante, que tom?ndonos en broma nos cuestiona de manera profunda y radical.

La obra de Juan Jos? Arreola (Jalisco, 1918- 2001) es un despliegue notable de temas y estilos; del cuento fant?stico a la f?bula de animales, de lo m?gico a lo fantasmag?rico, del amor idealizado a las m?s hermosas met?foras del dolor y de la muerte, los relatos reunidos en este Confabulario recorren ese espacio de ingenuidad y sapiencia que constituye el n?cleo de su obra.

Una obra cuyos or?genes se remontan a las literaturas cl?sicas y en la que el lector -como resalt? un cr?tico- descubrir? a un narrador de poderosa y sorprendente imaginaci?n, a un orfebre de las palabras y a un mago con los poderes de la imaginaci?n.

"Soy autodidacto, es cierto. Pero a los doce a?os y en Zapotl?n el Grande le? a Baudelaire, a Walt Whitman y a los principales fundadores de mi estilo: Papini y Marcel Schwob... Y o?a canciones y los dichos populares y me gustaba mucho la conversaci?n", escribi? el propio Arreola, una de las mayores voces, junto a Juan Rulfo, de la literatura mexicana contempor?nea.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

It is an invitation to delve into a sharp and coruscant prose, which, taking us as a joke, questions us in a profound and radical way.

The work of Juan Jos? Arreola (Jalisco, 1918-2001) is a remarkable display of themes and styles; from the fantastic tale to the fable of animals, from the magical to the phantasmagoric, from idealized love to the most beautiful metaphors of pain and death, the stories gathered in this Confabulario travel through that space of naivety and wisdom that constitutes the core of his work.

A work whose origins go back to classical literatures and in which the reader - as one critic pointed out - will discover a narrator of powerful and surprising imagination, a goldsmith of words and a magician with the powers of imagination.

"I'm self-taught, it's true. But at the age of twelve and in Zapotl?n el Grande I read Baudelaire, Walt Whitman and the main founders of my style: Papini and Marcel Schwob... And I listened to songs and popular sayings and I liked the conversation very much," wrote Arreola himself, one of the greatest voices, along with Juan Rulfo, of contemporary Mexican literature.