Alfonso Reyes

Alfonso Reyes Ochoa was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat. Alfonso Reyes was educated primarily in Mexico City. At the age of 21, Reyes published his first book, Cuestiones estéticas. The following year, 1912, he wrote a short story, La Cena ("The Supper"), considered a forerunner of surrealism and of Latin American magical realism. In that year he was also named Secretary of the Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.