Asfalto

Novel censored at the time of its publication that earned its author three months in prison for touching on the subject of homosexuality in 1963, without adjusting his seventeen-year-old character to a fate of guilt and moral anxiety, the only fate accepted then for an outcast sexual. Eduardo Ales arrives from his native Córdoba to Buenos Aires to try his luck, and he runs into characters from the bohemian Buenos Aires along the way, all abandoned to dissipation and hedonism, his moral education barely knows the abysses of bitterness and frustration of those who surround and seek. His innocence protects him for a time, and that state of grace has a liberating quality. In a short time, however, the city performs a definitive transformation in him; being able to have destroyed it, it tutelarily completes his instruction by making him learn the malice that is the first guarantee of urban survival, later installing him very well among his own -a stigmatized sexual minority- with a reflective maturity that allows him to imagine better times.