•The 573 most productive of our narrative pages (leftover many), are part of the only novel attributable to one of the most discordant voices of journalism in Colombia in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Antonio Caballero, who knows firsthand the daily dynamics of power in the country and its capital, extremist militant called 'guerrilla Chico' in the 70s, would ever write the longest novel in the history of Colombia. The result of this raid are fortunate experiences of Ignacio Escobar, a bohemian poet whose only income is from the large coffers of his mother, representing the values of our decadent aristocracy. Endearing characters, as Monsignor Boterito Jaramillo, Fina, Federico and others, are part of the human fauna of this wonderful story full of characters you can still find insurance daily.

•The genius of Salom Becerra-usually ignored, or at least underestimated by the critically deserve a better place in the canons of Bogota novel. He -a veteran lawyer, diplomat, journalist and magistrate found, to our fortune, a late vocation as a writer since the end of his career. His work has -homogénea and well structured-the city and its individuals of common protagonists: Men undefiled, naive, abused by parents, wives, children and patterns. Men of simple and sweet unhappy lives. Men without further claim that the survival, Bogotá residents of a story set in the nineteenth century. Witness the excessive population growth and freezing the souls of its inhabitants. Weak men bent detective exploited by their leaders (mostly skilled exponents of corruption, manzanillismo the delfinismo and all the bad isms by which Colombia has been affected from the very day of his false declaration of independence). Beautifully recreated by the late Mario Sastre, the troubles of Barnabas Bernal became a TV series in the 80s of XX century.

•Although the memory has disappeared from the consciousness of the citizens today, so-called 'crimes of Dr. Russi' were one of the most urban legends contained in the collective memory of several generations of city dwellers. In the midst of a struggle of sorts between free traders and artisans, the greatest defender of the latter (a mysterious tinterillo dress with fur cape and dog exotic habits) is accused of murder and sentenced to death in never clarified circumstances. 'The eyes of the basilisk' mixes made with imagery, creating a serialized document that unravels the intimacies of a dark and intriguing Bogotá.