In this volume, Fundación Banco Santander gathers a selection of short stories, bestiaries, haikus and journalistic semblances that illuminate the work and life of this great cultural promoter and Spanish-Cuban author who always cultivated a singular and powerful style.

This is the Prince of all stories, according to the critic Federico Sainz de Robles; the playwright, the poet, the novelist and journalist of breed who left excellent chronicles and profiles in some of the major Spanish and Latin American newspapers of his time.