Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most celebrated masterwork of modern Central American poetry, The Song of the Virgin Boy. What is odd is that Varamo, at fifty years old, "hadn't previously written one sole verse, nor had it ever occurred to him to write one".
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Original Work
Title: Varamo Author: César Aira Publisher: Editorial Anagrama City: Barcelona Year of publication: 2002 Edition: 1 Number of pages: 124 pp. Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans Translated in: 2012