Julián Ríos is a Spanish

Spain

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 writer, most frequently classified as a postmodernist

Postmodernism

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whom Mexican

Mexican people

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 novelist Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...

 has called "the most inventive and creative" of Spanish-language writers. His first two books were written à deux with Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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His best known work, experimental and heavily influenced by the verbal inventiveness of James Joyce

James Joyce

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, was published in 1983 under the title Larva.

Julián Ríos currently lives and works in France

France

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, on the outskirts of Paris

Paris

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In Spanish

• Puente de alma, Ed. Galaxia Gutenberg, 2009
• Quijote e hijos, Ed. Galaxia Gutenberg, 2008
• Larva y otras noches de Babel. Antología. Ed. F.C.E., 2008
• Cortejo de sombras, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2008
• Nuevos sombreros para Alicia, Seix Barral, 2001
• La vida sexual de las palabras, Ed. Seix Barral, 2000
• Solo a dos voces, Ed. F.C.E., 1999
• Monstruario, Seix Barral, 1999
• Epifanías sin fin, Ed. Literatura y ciencia, 1995
• Amores que atan o Belles letres, Siruela, 1995
• Sombreros para Alicia, Muchnik Editores, 1993
• Poundemonium, Ed. Llibres del Mall, 1985
• Larva. Babel de una noche de San Juan, Ed. Llibres del Mall, 1983

In English

• Loves That Bind
• Monstruary
• Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations, about U.S. artist R. B. Kitaj
  R. B. Kitaj
  Ronald Brooks Kitaj was an American artist who spent much of his life in England.-Life:Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland, United States, his Hungarian father, Sigmund Benway, left his mother, Jeanne Brooks, shortly after he was born and they were divorced in 1934. His mother was the...
  
  
• Poundemonium
• Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel