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  • Bibliography:
    2 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1995
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Book List in Order: 2 titles



  • Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compass...



  • The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as “the most beautiful stories in the world” by Italo Calvino)—an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recoll...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Augusto Monterroso has published 2 books.

The next book by Augusto Monterroso, The Rest is Silence, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Augusto Monterroso, Complete Works and Other Stories, was published in January 1995.

No. Augusto Monterroso does not write books in series.