What do two counterfeit banknotes have to do with a poetic masterpiece that marked the literature of Central America? The narrator of Varamo declares from the beginning that his purpose is to explain to us how a "third-rate writer" in a ministry will suddenly write a masterpiece.
And how can a storm change the life of a painter? In One Episode from the Life of a Traveling Painter, 'Aira tells a true story, the story of a traveling painter who crosses Argentina in the mid-19th century.
'Aira is considered the tremendous child of Latin American literature, he has been called a "phenomenon", "the Argentine Balzac", "the volcano of Argentine literature".