Author: Felisberto Hernández
- Fiction
- Ediciones Cátedra
- ISBN: 9788437611549
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

This just may be my favorite collection of short stories ever. Writing long before the magical realism captivated the world’s attention, Uruguayan composer, pianist and writer Felisberto Hernández was churning out fantastical and quintessentially surreal stories all by himself in Montevideo. Italo Calvino called him as “a writer like no other: like no European, nor any Latin American. He is an ‘irregular’ who eludes all classification and labeling, yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books.”