Julián Ríos (born 11 March 1941, in Vigo, Galicia) is a Spanish writer, most frequently classified as a postmodernist,Interview with Julián Ríos, Context, University of Illinois. whom Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has called "the most inventive and creative" of Spanish-language writers.La era Ríos, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2 April 2008. His first two books were co-written with Octavio Paz.
His best known work, experimental and heavily influenced by the verbal inventiveness of James Joyce,The Sexual Life of the Words by Julian Rivers by Elsa Dehennin – Centro Virtual Cervantes Dennehin calls Ríos "the Spanish Joyce", p. 67 was published in 1983 under the title Larva.
Personal life
Bibliography
Books 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: la novela de Tamoga, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2008 Nuevos sombreros para Alicia, Seix Barral, 2001 (expanded version of 1993 book) La vida sexual de las palabras, Ed. Seix Barral, 2000 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 Retrato de Antonio Saura, Círculo de Arte, 1991 Poundemonium, Ed. Llibres del Mall, 1985 Larva. Babel de una noche de San Juan, Ed. Llibres del Mall, 1983 Teatro de signos. Ed. Fundamentos, 1974 (with Octavio Paz) Solo a dos voces. Ed. Lumen, 1973 (with Octavio Paz)
In English Loves That Bind Monstruary Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations, about American artist R. B. Kitaj Poundemonium Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel House of Ulysses An extract was published in the Spring 2011 issue of The Hudson Review and in
Interviews Interview with Julian Rios
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