Two hundred and one miniature tales

Two hundred and one miniature tales (in Spanish Doscientos y un cuentos en miniatura) is a flash fiction book written by Argentinian writer Alejandro Córdoba Sosa, and published in 2007 under the pen name 'Alejandro Zenteno Lobo'. In 2015, this book was translated into English.

Two hundred and one Miniature Tales
AuthorAlejandro Córdoba Sosa under the pen name Alejandro Zenteno Lobo
Original titleDoscientos y un cuentos en miniatura
IllustratorMeli Valdés Sozzani
Cover artistMeli Valdés Sozzani
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish
GenreFlash fiction
PublisherDe los Cuatro Vientos (Argentina)
Publication date
2007
Published in English
2015 (ISBN 978-987-711-210-8)
Pages64 p.
ISBN978-987-564-685-8

Summary

The book is composed of two hundred and one flash fiction tales none of which goes beyond the limit of seventy words. The title of each one of the stories consists of just a roman number ordered from I to CCI; the tales are grouped into five chapters:

• Of Freedom and Sin

• The thou shalt kill tetragony

• Passages of a new decalogue

• A theological revisitation

• A cardinal revisitation

The shortest horror story

One of the flash fictions included in this book is thought to be the shortest horror story in Spanish. This story has just 28 letters in only seven words[1] and it reads, in its entirety:

‘Frente a él, el espejo estaba vacío’. (In front of him the mirror was empty.)

Illustrations

The book was illustrated by the Argentinian artist Meli Valdés Sozzani. For the first time, in 2014 an exhibition showed together the original illustrations made by Valdés Sozzani along with the microtales.[2]

gollark: I am very easily bored.
gollark: I bet I could catch a few poorly programmed ones with some work, though.
gollark: It looks like the exploit bots I decided to have fun with by streaming osmarks internet radio™ at are just dropping the connection when I do that. Sad!
gollark: Visit osmarks.tk, so I can somewhat obsessively analyze your traffic™.
gollark: And someone on something which... inconclusively looks like Safari and Chrome on an Android device, but is also seemingly an actual browser... visited SPUDNET, but didn't log in.

References
  1. "El cuento de terror más corto del mundo". Taringa!. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  2. Semanario El Mundo, 27 de febrero de 2014(...) quedó inaugurada la muestra pictórico-literaria “Doscientos y un cuentos en miniatura” basada en el libro homónimo de microrrelatos del escritor Alejandro Córdoba Sosa, cuyas ilustraciones originales fueron realizadas por la joven artista Meli Valdés Sozzani.
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