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The Switchman (Original title: El Guardagujas) is an existentialist short story by Mexican writer Juan José Arreola. The short story was originally published as a confabulario, a word created in Spanish by Arreola, in 1952, in the collection Confabulario and Other Inventions.
4.05. 222 ratings20 reviews. Beautifully illustrated and provocative, the author’s most famous short story is a puzzling tale about a man who wishes to take a train to a certain location but upon arrival at the station is told by the switchman that his chances of ever seeing a train—let alone of ever arriving at his intended destination ...
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A masterpiece of the Latin-American imagination. Juan José Arreola is one of the greatest writers of the XX Century in Spanish, one of the first to dare to a...
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En “Divagaciones del guardagujas: cuatro versiones de «The switchman»” (pp. 255-272), Mendoza Negrete analiza este cuento representativo de Arreola según la interpretación de cuatro traducciones.
His best-known and most anthologized tale, "The Switchman" exemplifies his taste for humor, satire, fantasy, and philosophical themes. The story, first published as "El guardagujas" in Cinco Cuentos in 1951, is translated in Confabulario and Other Inventions (1964).
Gale, Cengage Learning , 2016 - Literary Criticism - 19 pages. A Study Guide for Juan Jose Arreola's "The Switchman," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for...
“El guardagujas” (“The Switchman”) is Arreola’s most anthologized piece. It is without question his most representative. A stranded railroad traveler waits for months to board a train that never arrives, only to discover that schedules, routes, and even the landscapes seen from the windows of railroad cars…
