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Mi tio el empleado relata la historia de don Vicente Cuevas, que llega a Cuba de Espana a bordo de un bergantin, sin mas carta de presentacion que una recomendacion del senor marques de Casa Vetusta. La novela es narrada por el sobrino de Vicente; y denuncia como los funcionarios de la colonia se corrompen y enriquecen. El relato transcurre entre sordidas oficinas, en el lujo grotesco de los advenedizos y oportunistas. Marti dijo que su estilo es tan preciso que parece una hoja de espada a la vaina.

The Short Stories of La Habana Elegante appeared for the first time in the homonymous magazine in 1887, intended, according to its editors, to stimulate our literates, opening for them the opportunity to exhibit their wit in these entertaining literature pieces. As a matter of fact they did more than that. Never before a short stories book had been published in Cuba. Thus, those published by La Habana Elegante have the most rare condition of being the founding ones, and having acted as guides to the authors that came afterwards. Nineteen writers, each one with a narration, collaborated in...