"El porvenir de mi pasado es un libro para todos los lectores. Porque todos guardamos secretos, porque todos hemos sido ninos y seremos viejos, porque todos dudamos de la realidad de los suenos, porque todos escondemos nuestros pensamientos mas oscuros. Mario Benedetti es un escritor claro, diafano, por eso sus cuentos iluminan nuestros sentimientos sin intermediarios."--Back cover.

With his characteristic technical genius, Mario Vargas Llosa counters two worlds that appear at odds with each other - our modern societies and the people that live in total harmony with the natural environment. Steering the reader in a vertiginous journey through the collective mind of the Machiguenga Indians, Vargas Llosa expounds, once again, on one of his obsessions: the role fiction plays in the life of humanity

Searching for an inn to spend the night, Hans stops his horse-drawn carriage in Wandernburgo, a city located between Saxony and Prussia, and befriends many prominent families and a woman named Sophie. Even though the young woman is engaged, a love unfolds between them that threatens a masked murderer patrolling the city.

From his balcony in the Hotel Metropol, Friedrich Nietzsche, who has returned to a modern age with his old doubts and faults, interrogates Friedrich Nietzsche on the other balcony. Carlos Fuentes from his balcony, questions Carlos Fuentes in the other balcony. Desde su balcón en el Hotel Metropol, Federico Nietzsche, que regresa a una edad moderna con sus viejas dudas y culpas, interroga a Federico Nietzsche en el otro balcón. Carlos Fuentes, desde...