This story begins with horns. A musician returns home, eager to melt into his wife's arms after a tour that has taken him away from home too long. But she has not expected it. As soon as he enters the house, the desolate musician discovers that a young man in his twenties is now the one making the strings of his wife's soul vibrate.
The jilted man easily assumes his defeat. It is so easy to feel defeated and surrender to perdition and self-forgetfulness ...
The author himself, Roberto Ampuero, appears on the scene to try to alleviate the violent loss of love. But as happens during writing, the character listens but does not pay attention, and continues to search for his place in the depths of the world, where memories do not reach.
And in his easy descensus Averno You will find the strangest, most picturesque and grotesque in society, politicians included. All of them, losers but also winners wanting to show their fatuous glory in the underworld, will indulge in immediate pleasure, sex ...
Already in hell, the old musician, forgotten about himself, may discover that you can always make influential, powerful friends, who can rescue you from the lowest to rebuild your soul, already cured of all fear.
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