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"Centennial edition of an under-rated short story writer and novelist, Roque's wonderful edition will help to recover this Salvadoran master of the esoteric and the oral tradition. Generally considered the best Salvadoran writer of the 20th century, rightly admired by Gabriela Mistral, Salarrué mixed the vernacular and the fantastic without disdain for perverse psychologies. Each work has a solid examination of variants by Roque, and longer works like El señor de la burbuja (1927) and the tales of O-Yarkandal (1929/1971), both included in vol. 1, put in perspective the avant-garde initiatives of other Spanish American writers of the period. In vol. 2, Roque revises and provides the fullest collection of Salarrué's folkloric tales Cuentos de cipotes (1945/1971; see HLAS 38:6579 and HLAS 40:6653), which complement the complicated and rich stories for which he is best known, Cuentos de barro (1934), included in vol. 1. Vol. 3, also edited masterfully by Roque, includes Salarrué's last stories; a short novel; and his longest work, Catleya luna (1974/1980; see HLAS 40:6652), written in the 1950s according to Roque, but published much later"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.