"Beyond the Mirror" is Martín Cid's fourth novel. It takes its title from another one by Lewis Carrol.

It is organized in ten short stories which, at the end, turn into chapters of an only book where fate is analysed deeply. Poe or Dostoievsky's characters and old myths and legends are studied from our contemporary point of view: a new world is born.

The novel mixes classical and modern styles, changing slowly from tale to tale to shape a frightening and poetic atmosphere. Faust can appear in every moment and broken human beings can see their own faces through his nasty eyes.

Based on the knowledge of numbers, full of meta-literary meanings, calling for another fiction works, the novel travels throughout the ages and countries, finishing in front of the true soul of everyone. It is a new glance, a new concept of nastiness and goodness.

So, the principal short story (William Wilson) is about a proud person deceived by his own reflection, in front of a mirror with too many shadows and lies. The illusion comes and goes, changing times and aims.

The book begins with a man in love with a prostitute, their strange wishes and dreams. Faust's myth and "universal knowledge" makes the lector find his own dream: William Wilson offers the love and the heart, the man cannot refuse his present, cannot refuse his own fate. There's just one condition: Wilson would be substitute in his task for him. There's a new beginning for everyone.

This new character will carry on the story, meeting with winners and losers, with ghosts and sinners all over the world. The tales catch; we can see Mefisto's face in every mirror. If we had enough courage, we would be able to see our own poem in?, over?, beyond the mirror.