Abstract

FARFAN GOMEZ, Carlos Javier  and  SUAREZ TURRIZA, Tatiana. The “spoken books” of Juan José Arreola: a revision. Nóesis, Rev. cienc. soc. [online]. 2021, vol.30, n.60, pp.304-321.  Epub Sep 12, 2022. ISSN 2395-8669.  https://doi.org/10.20983/noesis.2021.2.15.

This paper reviews a series of little-known books by the writer Juan José Arreola. These are works that were transcribed by other people from recordings of classes, talks, and interviews that he taught and granted for several years. These spoken books, compiled and edited by family, friends, and other writers, were printed between 1973 and 2002. Through the opinions of Arreola and the vision of the world implicit in his texts, it is possible to verify the importance that the great narrator gave to dialogic consciousness. This paper attempts to revalue that set of titles that, at the same time that they expand the author’s reduced bibliography (only five books were published between 1949 and 1971), enrich a poetics based on permanent dialogue between human beings.

Keywords : spoken books; dialogue; confession; authorship; Mexican literature.

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