Finally he stumbled upon an adventure that came like some strange gift from the skies and that combined the three great aims of his life: his passion for overseeing the lives of others, his worship of beautiful women, and his admiration for the treasures of Spanish literature. He discovered Camila Perichole.
She's a little like Pilar Ternera, not only in her life-giving relationship to men, and in her straddling outsider/insider social status, but also in the fact that she unites this novel as a common thread in all the stories.
