A review by scottishben
Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso
4.0
In this you can kind of see how it might have influenced a range of writers from the likes of George Saunders to Lydia Davis. My only negative is that not being sufficiently aware of the politics or histories alluded to I probably am not capturing all there is to see and appreciate here.
Beyond that if I look at one of the stories that takes a fable/magical realist approach that I often want to like but find myself not but does it well enough that not only do I not mind too much but I am thinking about the stories afterwards. So even when stuff is written that isnt a good fit for me I find myself enjoying it and being glad to have read it.
Beyond that if I look at one of the stories that takes a fable/magical realist approach that I often want to like but find myself not but does it well enough that not only do I not mind too much but I am thinking about the stories afterwards. So even when stuff is written that isnt a good fit for me I find myself enjoying it and being glad to have read it.