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"These stories deal with the fictionality of literature. Their characters exist in a continuum of reality-fiction with no clear divide between the two, as in 'Agnus Rey,' set in the times of Alexander the Great, or 'Guerrero árabe,' which occurs in medieval times. Chirinos' fascination with language and its relative inability to represent reality is successfully conveyed"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.