Confabulario (Cuentos) / Confabulary (Short Stories)

Es una invitacin a adentrarnos en una prosa aguda y corruscante, que tomndonos 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 fantstico a la fbula de animales, de lo mgico a lo fantasmagrico, del amor idealizado a las ms hermosas metforas del dolor y de la muerte, los relatos reunidos en este Confabulario recorren ese espacio de ingenuidad y sapiencia que constituye el ncleo de su obra.

Una obra cuyos orgenes se remontan a las literaturas clsicas y en la que el lector -como resalt un crtico- descubrir a un narrador de poderosa y sorprendente imaginacin, a un orfebre de las palabras y a un mago con los poderes de la imaginacin.

"Soy autodidacto, es cierto. Pero a los doce aos y en Zapotln el Grande le a Baudelaire, a Walt Whitman y a los principales fundadores de mi estilo: Papini y Marcel Schwob... Y oa canciones y los dichos populares y me gustaba mucho la conversacin", escribi el propio Arreola, una de las mayores voces, junto a Juan Rulfo, de la literatura mexicana contempornea.

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 Zapotln 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.