Caterva short writings and circus sideshow masquerading as

and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories

The characters and their furious battle to out-do one another professionally gives the book its bleak humor

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

from La Symphonie du loup

it tells the story of three children sharing a gruesome secret who are brought together again by chance and illness — two patients and one nurse

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