Río subterráneo

This collection of short stories, the second of three published by Inés Arredondo (1928-1989), occupies a central place in 20th-century Mexican narrative. Written and revised over years and awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, it brings together twelve stories in which the author's narrative poetics reach their maturity: with prose of extraordinary precision, Arredondo explores the moment when normality crumbles and reveals, beneath the surface of everyday life, a dark truth made of desire, guilt, violence, and revelation. In its pages, home, partnership, the body, and memory cease to function as refuges and become spaces of ambiguity and helplessness. This first critical and annotated edition of the work offers a fixed text based on the first edition, previous publications in magazines and preserved manuscripts or typescripts, in addition to which it places "Underground River" in the trajectory of Arredondo and in the Mexican literary field of the mid-century generation, to which other great narrators such as Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Sergio Pitol, Rosario Castellanos or Salvador Elizondo belong.