El microrrelato en hispanoamérica: Dos hitos para una historiografía/nuevas prácticas de escritura y de lectura

Abstract

The article aims to establish some turning point in the development of short-short-story in our continent, considering the contribution of producers and anthologators as agents of social mediation. To this end, the article examines the anhologic work of Jorge Luis Borges of 1953 and Adolfo Bioy Casares Cuentos breves y extraordinarios, along with an authoring work of Juan José Arreola-the textual series Prosodia intregrated into Confabulario total (1941-1961)-as crucial highlight in the generic construction of the short-short-story, where imprint has profoundly marked this narrative format as model of witting and reception.