Caterva short writings and circus sideshow masquerading as

and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories

from La Symphonie du loup

Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado de Assis to Borges and beyond

and even the beauty

it is that a lot of the works described could be considered as meditations on mortality and transience

Caterva short writings and circus sideshow masquerading asCaterva tells of seven erudite, homeless, and semi incompetent radicals attempting to foment a revolution: conspiring with striking workers, setting off bombs, evading the local authorities, and dabbling in espionage. But like his literary descendant Julio Cortzar, Juan Filloy is more concerned with his characters tragicomical, occasionally transcendent inner lives than with their radical machinations. With its encyclopedic scope and satirical look at