Bar de anarquistas

Most of the eight stories that make up Bar de anarquistas take place in the anonymous and grey capital city of a Spanish province where some children explore the mysterious corners of their school, a happy man is devastated by insuperable boredom, a college lecturer mortgages his life for a woman whom he hardly knows, a local civil servant writes ignored masterpieces, a couple of lovers discovers they need secrecy to survive, and a group of workers tries desperately to get rid of a lazy and hypocritical boss. The moved memory of some summer evenings and the evocation of a naive and rainy year in the city of Glasgow complete a volume where we can find humour, the imperceptible hostility of time, certain perplexities of erotism.