Confabulario by Juan José Arreola
A luminous collection of compact, fable-like pieces that blend fantasy, satire and philosophical reflection into brief, sharply observed vignettes; each miniature tale or parable skews reality with playful language and ironic twists to expose human folly, vanity, power struggles and the porous border between imagination and fact. The tone moves from whimsical to melancholic, often folding metaphysical asides and linguistic games into portraits of everyday absurdity, so that myth, morality and humor collide in sentences that read like concentrated parables.
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- Published
- 1952
- Nationality
- Mexican
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 160-200
- Original Language
- Spanish
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