Author: Alberto Fuguet
- Fiction
- Alfaguara
- ISBN: 9788420419992
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

In this collection of stories, the Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet accomplished one thing: making clear that one of the unmistakable signs of young Hispanic-American generations is the desire for flight, the wish to disappear. Notoriously watering in the cinema and American pop culture, the Chilean writer reproduces its language, its situations and its mannerisms, as well as in the more fortunate cases, a certain unpredictable character. With its fleeting subject matter, Shorts (Cortos) should be read today, right now, because it's possible that the world it describes might disappear tomorrow.