Iberia

Translator's Introduction Francisco Ayala is without a doubt one of the great masters of Spanish prose. Born in the Andalusian city of Granada in 1906, he is the author of four novéis, nine volumes of short fiction, and countless books of social and literary criticism. Recently the first two...

THE OPENING MOVE The tall windows of the café were always dirty and the harsh stage light from the square filtered through them with shades of warmed-over coffee. The old waiter with hardening of the arteries dragged his bad leg around like something that didn't belong to him and he went from...