Las gafas del diablo
Autor: Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
Número de Páginas: 146"The glasses of the devil is a compilation of 21 articles or humorous essays written by the Spanish writer Wenceslao Fernández Flórez , published in 1919, and winner of the Chirel Prize of the Royal Spanish Academyof that same year. As the author explains in the prologue, this work aims to reflect humorously on various customs of Spanish society, observed through glasses that have the power to make people see not according to their appearance, but as they really are. Unlike the old story in which Fernández Flórez is inspired, the devil who lends us the glasses is not that horrendous and transcendental tradition, but one of "those who know the old Galician peasants, also old, with a malicious look and a devious smile; a devil who is like a peasant from that land, who laughs behind a fence of the scare of a raptor, who enjoys making fun of the old women, who knows the importance to be given to this life; jovial, good-natured, suspicious; that helps the fox get into a chicken coop and that, If I ever received proposals to buy a soul, I would take it, look at it, give it a hundred laps and conclude by observing: - When you sell it to me, some business you intend to do on my own....