Alejandro Lámbarry is the author of the book of essays Las ruinas de Babel: escritores extranjeros en México and the biographies El viajero: Sergio Pitol (1963–1988), Jorge Ibargüengoitia: un escritor entre ruinas, and Augusto Monterroso: en busca del dinosaurio.
Augusto Monterroso (1921–2003) was an author immersed in the Western literary tradition. His first readings were of classical authors and the Spanish Golden Age. When he finally decided to write, he f…