Dragón

Two knights dressed in armor wait in the darkness of the wasteland for the arrival of a dragon that they must kill. They have never seen it, but describe it as a huge, monstrous, one-eyed creature that breathes fire and smoke. When the much feared confrontation finally occurs, the story takes an unexpected turn. The story, originally titled The Dragon, by the famous American writer Ray Bradbury, was published by Esquire magazine in 1955, and later republished in the anthology Medicine for Melancholy, in 1959. This edition recovers one of the author's most acclaimed stories from Crónicas marcianas and Fahrenheit 451, in which one of the most important themes of his work can already be glimpsed: speculation about time and the threat of the future. The dragon acquires the symbolic value of the distance between the thought of two stages of the history of humanity: the Middle Ages and the 20th century. However, there is not a single dragon, Svetlin's mastery delights us with a display of representations of this mythological creature, in which both the terror and the fantasy of the story materialize, whose outcome leaves a door open to the reader's imagination. .