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Caterva John F. Byrne Literature Series are the pleasures of middle-classCaterva tells of seven erudite, homeless, and semi incompetent radicals attempting to foment a revolution: conspiring with striking workers, setting off bombs, evading the local authorities, and dabbling in espionage. But like his literary descendant Julio Cortzar, Juan Filloy is more concerned with his characters tragicomical, occasionally transcendent inner lives than with their radical machinations. With its encyclopedic scope and satirical look at