Contents

1 The Man Who Was My Papa

2 The Plaza San Martín

3 Lima the Horrible

4 The Democratic Front

5 The Cadet

6 Religion, Municipal Elections, and Backsides

7 Journalism and Bohemia

8 The Freedom Movement

9 Uncle Lucho

10 Public Life

11 Comrade Alberto

12 Schemers and Dragons

13 The Fierce Little Sartrean

14 Cut-Rate Intellectuals

15 Aunt Julia

16 The Great Change

17 The Miter-Bird

18 The Dirty War

19 The Trip to Paris

20 Period

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