Author: Carlos Monsiváis, ed.
- Fiction
- Ediciones Cal y Arena
- ISBN: 9789687711416
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Paloma Celis Carbajal

Selection of stories by nineteen Mexican writers published between 1934-1984. This anthology provides a representative sample of achievements and tendencies, of characters and customs from an era which witnessed the transformation of traditional Mexico into modern Mexico. The writers included in this anthology are: Juan de la Cabada, José Revueltas, Edmundo Valadés, Juan José Arreola, Elena Garro, Augusto Monterroso, Ricardo Garibay, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Carlos Fuentes, Juan García Ponce, Juan Vicente Melo, Sergio Pitol, Elena Poniatowska, Eraclio Zepeda, José Emilio Pachecho, José Agustín, Héctor Aguilar Camín, Guillermo Samperio, Juan Villoro