Background
Monterroso was born on December 21, 1921 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to a Honduran mother and Guatemalan father. In 1936 his family settled definitively in Guatemala City, where he would remain until early adulthood.
(This autobiographical novel or novelistic autobiography e...)
This autobiographical novel or novelistic autobiography explores the anecdotes, rumors, myths, and facts that are a family's history and the background of what drives one particular member of the family to become a writer.
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1994
Monterroso was born on December 21, 1921 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to a Honduran mother and Guatemalan father. In 1936 his family settled definitively in Guatemala City, where he would remain until early adulthood.
In 11 years Augusto left school, began study Latin independently, diligently attended the National Library, read Latin and Spanish classics.
He founded the newspaper El Espectador with a group of other writers.
He was detained and exiled to Mexico City in 1944 for his opposition to the dictatorial regime. Shortly after his arrival in Mexico, the revolutionary government of Jacobo Arbenz triumphed in Guatemala, and Monterroso was assigned to a minor post in the Guatemalan embassy in Mexico. In 1953 he moved briefly to Bolivia upon being named Guatemalan consul in La Paz. He relocated to Santiago de Chile in 1954, when Arbenz's government was toppled with help from an American intervention.
In 1956 he returned definitively to Mexico City, where he would occupy various academic and editorial posts and continue his work as a writer for the rest of his life.
(This autobiographical novel or novelistic autobiography e...)
1994