Stories by the outstanding Argentine writer Juan José Saer (1937–2005). And the first - “Reception on Baker Street” - is nothing more than a completely “strong” detective story about Sherlock Holmes, invented by one of the characters in the story and told by him to his friends waiting out the bad weather behind the bar. Or the story “At Breakfast” - about an old Jewish man, a refugee to Argentina, who miraculously survived a Nazi concentration camp. Day after day, he has breakfast in the same cafe and over coffee, out of habit, mentally thanks his terrible life experience, without which “optimistic prejudices would still distort his perception of reality...” And other stories by Juan José Saer, translated from Spanish by Alexander Kazachkova.