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Larrazábal the driver. In love with the madwoman Lola, who yearns to be with the mad poet, who is gay, though she won’t believe it.

I completed the first volume, The Part About The Critics, and simply loved it. The story functioned as a Borgian labyrinth in which all four were caught up. They thought they were looking for the mysterious writer Archimboldi but they were looking for love.

The Dean’s son. A Socratic relationship with Amalfitano.

All them are dreaming now, intensely. Dreams of the place, dreams of dislocation, dreams of lost identity.

Amalfitano is suddenly a fascinating character, subjecting the three critics to the
Most surreal Latin American aesthetic thinking. He is beginning to exert his power over these Europeans.

Notes: Archimboldi uses the alias Hans Reiter. (Or perhaps this is his real name.)

Dieter Hellfeld. (Archimboldi’s editor)
Mrs. Bubis. The wife of his publisher, now long dead.

Amalfitano - the Archimboldi expert/translator in Santa Teresa