Ariel: Cuaderno Mensual de Literatura y Artes Plasticas.

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico: no publisher [Universidad de Guadalajara ?], 12 issues: second series, numbers 3, 4, & 6, September, October, & December, 1951; numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, January through July, 1952; third series, numbers 21, 22, 23, January/ February, March/ April, May/ June, 1953 Oblong octavos, 8 or 12 pp each, illustrated, with supplements for each issue but one. Publisher's printed wraps, partially unopened.

Number 21 lacking supplement (if issued), age tanned, lightly soiled & foxed, soft vertical crease, occasional edge wear including small losses (text unaffected), Very Good..

Ariel, an obscure Mexican journal of fine arts & literature was published erratically in a total of just 26 issues between January, 1949 & October, 1953 Each issue features poetry, criticism, reviews, & more from contributors including Concha Monica, Agustin Basave, Gloria Riestra, Carlos Valdes, & others. Editor Carballo, author, journalist, & one of the most recognized literary critics of Mexico, co-founded with Carlos Fuentes the Mexican Magazine of Literature. Good friends with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he none-the-less was scathing in his critique of One Hundred Years of Solitude, describing Garcia Marquez as having "left humility behind" & going "through the twisted ways of pride, self-complacency." Perhaps his own greatest critic, Carballo described himself (& critics in general) as "an annoying but necessary figure … the critic is the spoiler, the movie villain of the West, the resentful, the bitter, the ogre and the witch of children's tales … he demands that others take risks while he looks at the bulls from the barrier." Quite uncommon, OCLC finds incomplete holdings at the University of Texas & the University of Colorado