Arqueles Vela

Arqueles Vela was born in 1899 in Tapachula, in Chiapas, or in Guatemala according to the sources, and made his career in Mexico. A journalist at El Universal Ilustrado, of which he became managing editor and where he wrote a column under the name Silvestre Paradox, he is one of the major figures of Estridentismo. He then studied literature and philosophy in Madrid, Paris, Rome and Berlin, then taught art history and literature at the Normal School in Mexico City from 1935. He died in Mexico City around 1977.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesLa señorita EtcéteraArqueles Vela · 1922not translated into EnglishLiterature