Su Majestad el Hambre: Cuentos Brutales in Bloomington, MN

The stories included in this Spanish language volume are linked around the central themes of poverty and hunger, laying bare the author's anger at the injustice and brutality he witnessed in contemporary Uruguayan society, and depicting a world in which desperation and violence go hand in hand.
During his short career Ernesto Herrera (1889-1917) was a dyed in the wool anarchist and a prolific writer of short stories and plays, featuring large on the Uruguayan literary scene from his late teens until his premature death at the age of twenty-seven.
Primera edición "Su Majestad el Hambre: Cuentos Brutales"
editada por El Deber Cívico, Montevideo, 1910
Esta edición por The Clapton Press Limited incluye también:
Sugestión
, publicada en "La Semana". Periódico. Año II, N
o
44.
Montevideo, 21 de mayo de 1910 p.145