The book Memorias del subsuelo is a short novel organized in two parts. The first, divided into eleven short chapters and entitled "El Subsuelo", basically consists of an interior monologue by the protagonist, a miserable, frustrated civil servant, a contradictory, sickly and excitable antihero, who addresses his talk to a non-existent audience. According to the author himself, in a short introduction that begins the work, his purpose was "to present to the public, with greater relief than other times, a character from times past but recent. [...] said individual introduces himself, sets forth his points of view and, apparently, wants to explain the causes that have originated and made his appearance in our midst inevitable."
The book Memorias del subsuelo is a short novel organized in two parts. The first, divided into eleven short chapters and entitled "El Subsuelo", basically consists of an interior monologue by the protagonist, a miserable, frustrated civil servant, a contradictory, sickly and excitable antihero, who addresses his talk to a non-existent audience. According to the author himself, in a short introduction that begins the work, his purpose was "to present to the public, with greater relief than other times, a character from times past but recent. [...] said individual introduces himself, sets forth his points of view and, apparently, wants to explain the causes that have originated and made his appearance in our midst inevitable."