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- Bestiaro (1958) is Juan José Arreola's most famous work besides Confabulario and Other Inventions. It is a collection of short stories, vignettes, and fables using animals to personify human qualities.
- Arreola's best-known work is Confabulario and Other Inventions (1964). It contains the sum total of his work through 1961, including his most acclaimed short stories.
- Where the Air Is Clear (1971) is Carlos Fuentes' first and best-known novel. The lyrically told story includes members across the social spectrum in post-Revolutionary Mexico.
- Existence and Being (1949) is Martin Heidegger's definitive work on existentialist thought.
- Ross Larson's Fantasy and Imagination in the Mexican Narrative (1977) is an excellent resource for contextualizing the work of many Mexican authors, including Arreola.
- Juan Rulfo is a contemporary of Arreola, and worked with him on publications in the early 1940s. His The Burning Plain (1941) is a collection of evocative, beautifully written stories about life after the Mexican Revolution.
- Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community (1995) is an extremely thorough, up-to-date historical and critical discussion of Magical Realism by a variety of authors. Edited and with an introduction by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris.
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