Confabulario and Other InventionsThis biting commentary on the follies of mankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing at themselves as well as at others. With his surgical intelligence, Juan Jos Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the false values and vices, the hidden diseases of society. Confabulario total, 1941 1961, of which this book is a translation, combines three earlier books Varia invencin (1949), Confabulario (1952), Punta de plata