Misfortunes befall the Levant Sharif, the birth of strange children increases, drought and poverty prevail, and the attempt of Ibrahim Pasha and the apostles of the French Revolution who joined him to overthrow the state of the Ottoman Sultan is nothing but a sign of the imminent arrival of Satan, as the religious extremists see, trying to preserve the Levant Sharif, fighting the creation Newspapers and comics that encourage obscenity.
All of this is happening outside, while Arwa sneaks into Bernardo’s house and messes with a strange drawing of a complete being, carrying both masculinity and femininity.
In an interesting plot that combines imagination with history, myth, and folktales, Khairy Al-Dhahabi tries to read the effects of the French campaign in Syria, and monitors the return of theater to the Levant, discussing many problematic issues: myth, masculinity and femininity, and the Damascene people killing those who are gay among them.
Tirano Benderas suspects Colonel Domitiano della Gondra of conspiring against him, and when he discovers a simple mistake committed by the latter, he provides the tyrant with the pretext he needs to arrest him, so he issues a secret order for his arrest, but a prostitute who can read minds knows about this, and warns the colonel. In the midst of the country's annual celebrations, Della Gondra flees and joins the rebels against the tyrant's rule.
In this novel, which is considered one of the first novels written in the Spanish language about the dictator, before other writers from Latin America entered this field, “Ramon del Paye Inclán” presents a vivid depiction of the character of the tyrant, in a circular structure, full of short chapters and closed scenes that together constitute A rich text with its internal rhythm, wonderful images, and multiple linguistic levels.
