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Don’t Ask Me How the Time Goes By

work by Pacheco

Also known as: “No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo”

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…cómo pasa el tiempo (1969; Don’t Ask Me How the Time Goes By) includes poems in which there is a nostalgic desire to relive the past, sometimes coupled with a fine sense of irony. The short stories in El principio del placer (1972; “The Pleasure Principle”) are united by the…
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