Heinrich & Co. Printing House, Barcelona, 1889. Author's dedication. Title page, 875 pp. Prologue by Juan Valera. Half-leather binding; retains the original paperback covers, restored. Santiago Estrada was a remarkable Argentine writer. His prose stands out for its poetic, sometimes sublime, quality, combining simplicity with elegance. One might say that his writing has the rhythm with which a soul floats in a state of grace. He was admired by his contemporaries, who would have been astonished to find his texts forgotten in the antiquarian bookstores of San Telmo or Barcelona. [...] Miscellany, a collection of stories in which, although those dealing with Christian spirituality predominate, the author branches out into various subjects, becoming a precursor to works such as Borges's Inquisitions. (Alejandro Marzioni)
