Juan José Arreola

Juan José Arreola was born on 21 September 1918 in Zapotlán el Grande, today Ciudad Guzmán, in Jalisco. Very young, he worked at all sorts of trades: bookbinder, baker, typesetter, actor. In 1945, at the invitation of Louis Jouvet, he went to study theatre in Paris. Back in Mexico, he became an editor of journals and books and published short texts marked by irony, then a novel, the only one in his work. He died in Guadalajara on 3 December 2001.

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• Short storiesConfabulario and Other InventionsConfabularioJuan José Arreola · 1952Literature