Olegaroy

In Monterrey on the eve of the Cold War, Olegaroy, a plain, sleepless reader of newspapers who believes himself a great thinker, takes the mattress of a woman stabbed to death in the hope that it will let him sleep. The theft brings him endless trouble, the misfortunes of a murderer who has killed no one, and he sets out to look into the crime himself. Visiting wakes with his attentive mother, he gathers a philosophy of death and begins an encyclopedia of human misfortune, while a following gathers around his parables: Salomé, a chorus girl; Professor Mariles, poet and mathematician; and Fabián, a troubled priest who carries his master's ideas all the way to the Vatican. A narrator sure of his hero's genius tells it all as the true life of a forgotten Mexican sage.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Alfaguara

Author's age

56 when first published