Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
- Fiction
- Literatura Random House
- ISBN: 9788439734345
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Each country should engender a writer who has the capacity of devastating the reader on the page. In the case of El Salvador, Castellanos Moya is that man. In a bitter but brilliant exercise, the protagonist of the book implacably explodes symbols, institutions, characters and everything which constitutes the internal and external life of a country, without distinction to political allegiance or social class. Disgust (El Asco) is also an exercise in style, an intelligent bomb of acerbic humor. In his fierce but lucid fall, the protagonist will come to the end of himself, understanding that although granted exile, forgetting is denied to him. With novels like Arms in the Man (El Arma en el Hombre) and Dance with Serpents (Baile con Serpientes), written in agile and steely prose, Castellanos Moya is without a doubt one of the best and most intense Central American and Hispanic American writers of our times.