Afanes sin provecho

In Unprofitable Endeavours, Lorenzo Silva collects stories written over the last forty years, between 1984 and 2024; tales with a common thread: literature as a way of inhabiting and observing life. In these pages, we find everything from historical, contemporary, and noir fiction to autobiographical texts—a rarity in his career—that reveal a more confessional and direct Silva. Without attempting to provide definitive answers, the author traces a vital map that complements and humanizes his work.