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...

Autonosuya, curiosa novela politico-burlesca is a curious novel, first published by installments in the Cuban newspaper EL IMPARCIAL DE MATANZAS in 1886. As a book it was published posthumously in 1897. At that time, Cuba was going through the necessary war, initiated by Jose Marti in 1895 to secure the island's independence from Spain, a war that would end three years later with the U.S. intervention. From an ideological standpoint, Autonosuya is an indictment of Cuban independence and self-government. With that objective, Fontanilles narrates what would happen on the island once Spain...