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A masterful dissection of decadent provincialism that narrates the possible disintegrations of man in Mexico City, conceived by a language goldsmith such as Carlos Fuentes. With Singing for the Blind, published more than 50 years ago, Carlos Fuentes reaffirmed his place not only as an essential novelist of the boom, but also as an excellent short story writer. Stories where lost innocence is sought with the desire to restore it, and which are already part of the universe of Mexican literature of the 20th century. Tales can save us, as Scheherazade well knew. They open thresholds to other days, to other shores. Singing of the blind, a fundamental work of Mexican literature, contains seven stories that unmask weaknesses and cynicism where desire and love, incest, adultery and perverse encounters converge; including "The Two Elenas", "The Queen Doll" and "A Pure Soul". In the words of Carlos Fuentes: "We always want something more, something that we may not even be able to conceive, but that our imagination and our senses seek" Other authors have opined: "Multiple, mighty, demanding, controversial to the point of misunderstanding and, above all, everything, committed to the literary act as an act at the political end, Carlos Fuentes leaves a high challenge for the rest of the writers who will survive him" -Sergio González Rodríguez- The critics have opined: "Fuentes, through these stories, addresses topics such as time, memory, provincialism, coincidence, uncertainty, chance, social conventions and also confronts the reality of the country, its customs and culture.The approach to stories, their treatment, is done from an open and cosmopolitan conception, which transcends any type of regionalism. The text has not lost its validity over the years." -Rubén Aguilar, Political Animal-