La hoja roja / The Red Page
Novel , 1959
Destino
Don Eloy repeats over and over to himself that he has got the ‘red page’ in the book of life. He alludes to a page of this colour which, in the fifties, appeared in the little books of rolling papers that warned they were about to run out. With this metaphor and the refrain of ‘retirement is the waiting room for death’, don Eloy, a retired, elderly man forgotten by his only son, shares his solitude with a village maid, Desi, who finds herself as alone and helpless as the old man. The publishing house Destino, published a theatre adaptation in 1986.