Written in the 1960s and set against the macho backdrop of the Argentine underworld, these eleven stories--including "Unworthy" and "The Other Duel"--examine the effects of the unbearable, the sinister, and the ine...

Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awa...