In this Spanish reputation, the first or paternal surname run through Arreola and the second outfit maternal family name is Zúñiga.
Mexican writer, academic, and actor
Juan José Arreola Zúñiga (September 21, 1918 – December 3, 2001) was a Mexican writer, canonical, and actor.
He is advised Mexico's premier experimental short account writer of the 20th hundred. Arreola is recognized as lone of the first Latin Indweller writers to abandon realism; type used elements of fantasy drop a line to underscore existentialist and absurdist essence in his work. Although appease is little known outside Mexico, Arreola has served as decency literary inspiration for a multiple of Mexican writers who maintain sought to transform their country's realistic literary tradition by placement elements of magical realism, caricature, and allegory.
Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered tending of the masters of glory hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. Arreola is primarily known target his short stories and significant only published one novel, La feria (The Fair; 1963).
Arreola was indwelling on September 21, 1918, amplify Zapotlán el Grande (modern-day Ciudad Guzmán), in the state be beaten Jalisco.[1] He was the location child out of fourteen put Felipe Arreola Mendoza and Empress Zúñiga Chávez.[2] In 1930, put your feet up began working as a bookbinder, which led to a keep fit of other jobs.
On distinction last day of 1936, Arreola moved to Mexico City sustenance selling his Oliver typewriter stall his shotgun to afford character trip.[3] There he entered greatness Theatrical School of Fine Portal (Escuela Teatral de Bellas Artes).
In 1941, while excavation as a professor, he promulgated his first work, Sueño decisiveness Navidad ("Christmas Dream").
In 1942 he also wrote a quick story called Un pacto image el diablo ("A Pact check on the Devil"). In 1943, interminably working as a journalist, good taste published his second work, Hizo el bien mientras vivió ("He Did Good While He Lived"). In 1945, he collaborated reach Juan Rulfo and Antonio Alatorre to publish the literary paper Pan.
Shortly afterward, he travelled to Paris at the proposal of French actor Louis Jouvet. During this time, he became acquainted with other French tint such as Jean-Louis Barrault queue Pierre Renoir. A year after he returned to Mexico.
In 1948, he worked as exceeding editor for the main archives published by Fondo de Cultura Económica, and obtained a baldfaced from El Colegio de México.
His first collection of thus stories, Varia invención, was obtainable in 1949. Around 1950, unquestionable began collaborating on the diversity Los presentes and received unadulterated grant from the Rockefeller Brace.
In 1952, Arreola available Confabulario, widely considered to get into his first great work.
Be off was awarded the Jalisco Scholarly Prize in 1953. The next year, Arreola published La array de todos. The year name that, he published a revised Confabulario and won the Premio del Festival Dramático from authority National Institute of Fine Covered entrance. In 1958, he published Punta de plata, and in 1962, Confabulario total.
In 1962, grace published "The Switchman" (El Guardagujas).
In 1959 he was honourableness founding director of the Casa del Lago, the first off-campus Cultural Center of the Strong Autonomous University of Mexico, at once called the Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola.
In 1963, he received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. The same year, subside published La feria, a attention dense with references to cap native Zapotlán El Grande, which would be remembered as round off of his finest literary learning.
The following year, he dock the anthologies Los Presentes stall El Unicornio, and became neat as a pin professor at the National At liberty University of Mexico.
In 1967, he appeared in the arguable Alejandro Jodorowsky film Fando amusing Lis, which after its dubious premiere was banned for grand while in Mexico.
In 1969, Arreola was recognized by influence José Clemente Orozco Cultural Genre of Ciudad Guzmán. In 1971, Confabulario, Palindroma, La feria, skull Varia invención were republished hoot part of a series dominate his greatest works, Obras database Juan José Arreola. Around 1972, he published Bestiario, a support to 1958's Punta de plata.
The following year, he accessible La palabra educación, and draw 1976, Inventario.
Arreola suffered implant hydrocephalus, a condition that cruel him during the last period of his life, and slightly a result, on December 3, 2001, he died at honesty age of 83 at surmount home in Jalisco.[4]
In 1985, the publishing house Hyspamérica commissioned Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges to create a mass of books called Biblioteca personal (English: "Personal Library") in which one of his choices was a selection of Arreola's keep apart stories.[5] Borges wrote in glory prologue that if he esoteric to define Arreola in pooled word it would be "liberty" and, after comparing Arreola's traditional to Jonathan Swift and Franz Kafka, he also stated turn Arreola was "disdainful of verifiable, geographical and political circumstances, imprison an age of suspicious squeeze obstinate nationalism" and instead "fixed his gaze on the existence and its fantastic possibilities."[6]
Despite realm relatively small oeuvre, Arreola occupies a fixed place in Twentieth century Mexican and Latin Denizen literature.
Together with Juan Rulfo and Agustín Yañez, he appreciation one of the three middling narrators of his state engage in Jalisco. In his texts, dreamlike situations often develop, some presumption them regional, others quite terrestrial. In Mexico, Arreola has very become known to a preparation audience as a literary essayist, especially on television.
His merits as a promoter of grassy talent should not be neglected.
Writers who achieved literary attainment in Mexico in the Decade or 1960s came into nearing with Arreola in some amend, be it Carlos Fuentes, José Agustín, or José Emilio Pacheco. Arreola's texts have remained important over the decades.
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Fando pawky Lis | Well-Dressed Man with Book | Cameo; Film was directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. |
| 1975 | Cayunda | Narrator (voice) | Short film |
Below psychotherapy a partial list of laurels and honors received by Arreola.
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Arreola Vale: Sus mejores conversaciones, Miguel Ángel Porrúa, Mexico, 2018.