This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Definimos el concepto de "ritual del lector devoto" como aquellas acciones más o menos complejas y codificadas que realizan lectores que ...

Augusto Monterroso, who has died aged 81, wrote the shortest story in the history of literature; entitled The Dinosaur, it ran: "When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there." Monterroso, who won the ...

Augusto Monterroso, a Guatemalan author considered to have written the shortest story in the history of literature, has died. He was 81. Monterroso died late Friday at his Mexico City home, his family ...

Augusto Monterroso, 81, a Guatemalan author considered to have written the shortest story in the history of literature, died Friday of heart failure in his Mexico City home. The shortest story ...

"When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there." That sentence is one of my favorite stories, and one of the shortest works of fiction ever written, by Guatemalan author Augusto Monterroso. To some, ...

Augusto Monterroso, trans. from the Spanish by Aaron Kerner. New York Review Books, $16.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-68137-882-4 Guatemalan short story writer Monterroso (The Black Sheep and Other ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Augusto Monterroso, the Guate-malan author who has died aged 81, wrote the shortest story in the history of literature. Entitled The ...

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Augusto Monterroso, writer: born Tegucigalpa, Honduras 1921; married Barbara Jacobs (two daughters); died Mexico City 8 February 2003. Augusto Monterroso once confessed with characteristic modesty ...