Forty years after the plane accident that took his life and that of other intellectuals, the Mexican writer is still present through a scathing, explicit and seductive work.

The Antonio Machado Libros publishing house recovered 'Dos crímenes' and 'Las muertas.'

On November 26, 1983, 40 years ago, Jorge Ibargüengoitia left his house in Paris with a suitcase. He opened the door of the taxi that would take him to the airport and looked toward the balcony to say goodbye to his wife, the painter and sculptor Joy Laville, as she would later say.  With him he carried the only copy of his new novel, still unpublished, with the tentative title ‘Isabel baila.’ The author never made a copy of his manuscript. He had been invited by the Colombian government, along with other intellectuals, to the First Cultural Meeting

Columnist, playwright, short story writer and novelist, the author born in Guanajuato in 1928, would build his literary body from a critical and scathing look at a Mexico plagued by moral, social, and religious prejudices which made him laugh so much. He exercised social criticism from the vision of a historical novelist under the intimate prism of an ordinary citizen. He portrayed the historical context from the everyday and absurd details, deconstructing real events, as if they were written from fragments of conversations overheard in a neighborhood store or in the courtyard of a house.

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