The Great Caribbean Calm

Whether they depict a city populated by thieves where the only honest inhabitant is destined to starve, a country whose law dictates that leaders be decapitated at the end of their term, the indifference of the crowd warming themselves in the sun while conspirators assassinate Caesar, Neanderthal man, Henry Ford or Montezuma, the texts gathered here, from the first apologues of the 40s to the very latest stories, show how, through a thousand and one ways, the author of Palomar managed to unravel the inextricable tangle of our contemporary world.