Short Stories

"You know very well the moral and psychological state I have been in for some time now...It is the result of something I consciously and deliberately sought: the desire to penetrate to the core, to the brutal nakedness of the world around me, to see if, after all, I would be able to resist. I am referring to the world of human values that must be my clay, my working material, if I truly want to be a writer, if I truly want to feel that I can create and not just do things well or poorly. For me, the problem has never been literature, but something else more essential, which I am compelled to verify in my blood, in my life, in my biography."

from The Letters of María Teresa

The 2008 collection Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories situates Revueltas among the most prominent Mexican short story writers with his piece "The Little Doe". This is the most recent publication of a Revueltas short story into English at this time. An incredibly short and intense story, this piece only barely scratches the surface of his deep well of tales. He has three collections of short stories published in Spanish. See "In and Out of Print (Spanish)" page. More updates to follow.