Julián Ríos

Julián Ríos (born 1941 in Vigo, Galicia) is a Spanish writer, most frequently classified as a postmodernist,^[1] whom Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has called "the most inventive and creative" of Spanish-language writers.^[2] His first two books were written à deux with Octavio Paz.

His best known work, experimental and heavily influenced by the verbal inventiveness of James Joyce,^[3] was published in 1983 under the title Larva.

Julián Ríos currently lives and works in France, on the outskirts of Paris.

Bibliography

In Spanish

• 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, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2008
• Nuevos sombreros para Alicia, Seix Barral, 2001
• La vida sexual de las palabras, Ed. Seix Barral, 2000
• Solo a dos voces, Ed. F.C.E., 1999
• 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
• Poundemonium, Ed. Llibres del Mall, 1985
• Larva. Babel de una noche de San Juan, Ed. Llibres del Mall, 1983

In English

• Loves That Bind
• Monstruary
• Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations, about U.S. artist R. B. Kitaj
• Poundemonium
• Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel
• Procession of shadows. Translated by Nick Caistor. Dalkey Archive Press. 2011.

References

1. Interview with Julián Ríos, Context, University of Illinois.
2. La era Ríos, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2 April 2008.
3. The Sexual Life of the words by Julian Rivers by Elsa Dehennin - Centro Virtual Cervantes Dennehin calls Ríos "the Spanish Joyce", p. 67