In La mosca soldado (2004) Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (Santo Domingo, 1936 - ), one of the most prolific and well known current Dominican authors, conveys in a highly poetic language his fascination with archaeology and history, central topics of all of his narrative works. Unlike his earlier novels (Una y carne and El hombre del acordeon, among others) which are set in the Trujillo era, La mosca soldado focuses on an area of Dominican history which is not primarily political, but rather centered on human concerns told from a universal perspective. La mosca soldado includes a number of the...