The Player
(Tale from the book "Beyond The Mirror")
By Martin Cid

That night, there were Alvin, Edgar, Goldwin, Wilson and a little man with an aquiline nose. Alvin smiled, Edgar looked steadily, Goldwin sweated, Wilson showed extremely good manners and the little man had enough trouble trying his nose went unnoticed.
            Alvin and Edgar were an established team from many years ago. They did not have any shady deal but they never fought each other.
            Goldwin and the little man were ordinary people who had come to squander the few coins they had earned some hours before.ReadMore

"Spain is not a country of novelists". It is a strong sentence which could keep some truth in recent times if we forgot that not only would be Tolstoi but Clarin, a Spanish author, who would join the 19th century literary achievements, establishing the next century fiction basis.

Clarin was born in Zamora in 1852 but he lived in Oviedo many years. Here, in this wet town, surrounded by mountains, near Bay of Biscay, he wrote his important novel: "The Regenta". It tells Ana Ozores' life, a beautiful woman full of feelings and passions, trapped in Vetusta's hypocritical and conservative society. ReadMore