All in all

It is the summer of 2598. Three days after the end of the world Lorenzo, a shepherd in the outskirts of London, tells us of the events which according to him, announced the final catastrophe without anybody realizing.The Mayor’s life, still alive, made apparitions through walls, appearing against her will where least expected; children overtook their parents in age; hens changed into snakes with breasts and the blind could recover their sight by drinking just the right mixture of laxative with soda.How did Lorenzo survive the end of the world in order to live tot ell the story? Well –in a very different way from that in which Alvarez, Herminio and Pascual did.A nonmacabre joke about the end of the world and the millenarisms –highly fashionable in 1984 when we commemorate the Dr. Well’s prophecy- which takes place in a Castilian village anchored in the great tradition of the picaresque literary.