This a book about one of the most outstanding Latin American writers of the fifties and sixties. Mr. Juan José Arreola Zúñiga displayed an array of aesthetic skills that helped him to be one of the master of the short story telling. You must try paradigms such as "El guardagujas", "El prodigioso miligramo", "Loco dolente", "Homenaje a Otto Weininger", "La lengua de Cervantes", "Teoría de Dulcinea", "Elegía", among others. He was an excellent writer very well known in Mexico, and, maybe, a little bit forgotten in the rest of Latin America. Our book is trying to go back to him and call the attention on his display of discourses and semantics.