CUENTOS AUTOBIOGRAFICOSA book of stories that unfolds like a fragmentary recollection, shot through with exaltation, guilt, desire, reconciliation, and an often painful lucidity. The beloved, inaccessible, authoritarian, powerful woman can also epitomize a moralistic and repressive Spain, whose promise of justice is never fulfilled. Memory, far from being redemptive, is here a dense space, full of gaps, shadows, and contradictions. Absolutely brilliant.