Beatle Dreams and Other Stories

In this playful and sometimes political collection of short stories, Guillermo Samperio continuously toys with the prejudices and fashionable fetishes of his contemporaries, as exemplified in his ＂poetic portraits＂ of women. Much of his seemingly serious prose is tongue-in-cheek humor, as in Yurecaro, an initiation story that combines the poetic, the erotic, the rural and the urban, laced with a youthful, picaresque humor.
Humor, fantasy and social irony characterize the astonishing work of Mexican writer Guillermo Samperio, who has produced more than 170 stories in a dozen volumes. Samperio sees literature as an aggression against established values, in politics and in art. An extraordinary observer of human nature, he plays with the relationship between author, reader and text, producing unexpected and imaginative results.