Juan jose arreola biography meaning
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Entry updated 12 September 2022.
Juan jose arreola biography meaning
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(1918-2001) Mexican author and academic whose full name was Juan José Arreola Zúñiga. Best known for his fantastic short stories, especially the Kafkaesque "El guardagujas" ["The Switchman"] (7 May 1950 México en la Cultura), he is considered one of Mexico's premier experimental short story authors and one of the masters, alongside Jorge Luis Borges, of the essay-story.
Borges also described his work with one word: "freedom. Freedom of an unlimited imagination, governed by a lucid intelligence". Arreola wrote very few sf short stories, but, like the rest of his work, they were built with a detailed prose and a taste for bizarre things, combined with elements of Magic Realism, Satire, and allegory.
Three of them appear in Confabulario (coll 1952; trans George D Schade 1964), the first two original to that volume: "En verdad os digo" ["In Truth I Tell You"] is about a Scientist who promises the salva