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La novela se divide en cuatro partes, cada una con un título que narra la tormentosa relación tragicómica entre Lavinia y Cauby.

Pourquoi la maladie, même invétérée, serait-elle incurable ? On se le demande avec d’autant plus de perplexité que, ces mois derniers, dans un secteur industriel voisin et frappé comme lui d’une grave déficience, on a vu se produire une de ces cures-éclairs qui se proposent sous une forme providentielle à l’admiration publique : une pernicieuse anémie de courant, tenue par le Ministre lui-même pour inguérissable, s’est — en plein novembre — brusquement transformée en aisance de la circulation énergétique : puis en abondance caractérisée... Comment ce miracle...

Emilio Carballido (1925–2008) was one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater. By his mid-forties he had already produced an impressive body of works in two very different veins. On the one hand, he mastered the techniques of the "well-made play." On the other, he developed a richly rewarding vein of fantasy, sometimes poetic, sometimes comic, sometimes macabre—and sometimes all three. The plays in this volume are in the latter vein, ranging from surrealist farce in "The Intermediate Zone" to the ...

Excerpt from Tipos y Costumbres de la Isla de Cuba: Coleccion de Articulos About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of ...