Through a narrative art that seizes a series of seemingly insubstantial events, and gnaws at, destroys, and reworks the everyday, forcing it to reveal its latent meanings, Juan García Ponce gives us in these stories—two of which have been adapted to film—three dazzling examples of his way of feeling and thinking about words and, through words, reality itself.

The slow and unconsciously malignant dissolution of love in a young marriage; the heartbreaking awareness of the impossibility of absolute union between people who love each other and believe they have found each other; the insidious horror that life together exudes when a gaze observes it exhaustively and serenely...

In these three stories, absorbed in their own dense and dark material, García Ponce evokes that "apparition of the invisible" through the signs that are our actions, our gestures, our glances, whether deliberate or cast at random. Characters, situations, and environments from our time, painfully and tensely alive: these are the stories in “Amelia,” “Tajimara,” and “La noche,” stories that already have a privileged place in Mexican literature.