Death as a Way of Life

…novels, Muertes de perro (1958; Death as a Way of Life) and El fondo del vaso (1962; “The Bottom of the Glass”). His later works include the short-story collections El jardín de las delicias (1971; “Garden of Delights”) and El jardín de las malicias (1988; “Garden of Malice”). In 1991…

…novels (Muertes de perro [1958; Death as a Way of Life, 1964] and its sequel El fondo del vaso [1962; “In the Bottom of the Glass”]), he cultivated themes that allowed him to obliquely re-create aspects of the Civil War as well as to address more-universal social concerns. These works…