"This book should be read with your hands up: its danger is based on its underhanded wisdom and the deadly beauty of its lack of seriousness."

Gabriel García Márquez

"Imagine Borges's fantastic bestiary having tea with Alice. Imagine Jonathan Swift and James Thurber exchanging notes. Imagine a frog from Calaveras County who had actually read Mark Twain: behold Monterroso."

Carlos Fuentes

"The short texts of The Black Sheep and other fables by Augusto Monterroso, seemingly harmless, bite if one approaches them without due caution and leave scars, and that is precisely why they are beneficial. After reading "The Monkey Who Wanted to Be a Satirical Writer," I will never be the same."