title: Complete Works and Other Stories (TEXAS PAN AMERICAN)
author:  Augusto Monterroso 
description: "Sophisticated wit and playful surrealist fantasy dominate these ingenious and gently mocking tales, by a Guatemalan-born soul mate to the late Jorge Luis Borges. This first English translation of Monterrosos work offers the contents of his two published collections, <cite>Complete Works and Other Stories</cite> (1959) and <cite>Perpetual Motion</cite> (1972). Theyre a monument, if that isnt the wrong word, to this entertaining authors trademark concision and wit." (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>)<br /><br />"Monterroso is certainly the leading living Guatemalan writer. . . . His microcuentos are finely honed, highly ironic, sophisticated pieces which are both very good literature and excellent pedagogical devices. I would liken his short stories to some of Borges' more accessible ones, with the added dimension of political commitment." (Cynthia Steele, author of Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988: Beyond the Pyramid)
zlib_text: ## COMPLETE WORKS (AND OTHER STORIES)
  
  
  
  
  
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  **TEXAS PAN AMERICAN SERIES**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # COMPLETE WORKS & OTHER STORIES
  
  
  # AUGUSTO MONTERROSO
  
  
  Translated by Edith Grossman
  
  
  with an introduction by Will H. Corral
  
  
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  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS  
  AUSTIN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press
  
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  First edition, 1995
  
  
  Published by arrangement with the author
  
  
  Originally published as: _Obras completas (y otros cuentos),_ UNAM, México,
  1959, and Ediciones Era, México, 1990. _Movimiento perpetuo,_ Joaquín Mortiz,
  1972, and Ediciones Era, México, 1991.
  
  
  Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to
  Permissions, University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Monterroso, Augusto.
  
  
  [Short stories. English]
  
  
  Complete works and other stories / by Augusto Monterroso ; translated by Ed