el pan ("I went out to buy bread", 1976) Los políticos ("Politicians", 1976) Crónicas postfranquistas ("Post-Francoist Chronicles", 1976) Las Jais ("Birds", "Chicks" [slang, i.e. "Girls"] 1977) Spleen de Madrid–2 ("Madrid Spleen–2", 1982) España como invento ("Spain as an invention", 1984) La belleza convulsa ("Convulsive Beauty", 1985) Memorias de un hijo del siglo ("Memories of a child of the century", 1986) Mis placeres y mis días ("My pleasures and my days", 1994). Among non-readers, he is remembered by an appearance in Mercedes Milá's TV program Queremos saber in Antena 3 TV (1993). After some chatter, Umbral breaks conversation claiming that he has come to talk about his latest book, La década roja, not to entertain her Work Narratives Highlights of his very extensive narrative production, in which autobiographical aspects stand out, include: Tamouré (1965) Balada de gamberros ("Louts' Ballad", 1965) Travesía de Madrid ("Crossing Madrid", 1966) Las vírgenes ("The Virgins", 1969) Si hubiéramos sabido que el amor era eso ("If we had known that love was this", 1969) El Giocondo (1970) about the homosexual milieu of Madrid (the title is a play on the Italian "la Gioconda", the name of the painting known in English as the Mona Lisa) Las europeas ("European Girls", 1970) Memorias de un niño de derechas ("Memoirs of a child of the right", 1972) Los males sagrados ("Holy Evils", 1973) Mortal y rosa ("A Mortal Spring", 1975) Las ninfas ("The Nymphs", 1975, received the Premio Nadal) Los amores diurnos ("Daytime Love", 1979) Los helechos arborescentes ("The Tree Ferns", 1980) La bestia rosa ("The Pink Beast", 1981) Los ángeles custodios ("Guardian Angels", 1981) Las ánimas del purgatorio, ("The Souls of Purgatory", 1982) Trilogía de Madrid ("Madrid Trilogy", 1984) Pío XII, escolta mora y un general sin un ojo ("Pius XII, the Moorish Escort and a General Missing an Eye", 1985) Nada en el domingo ("Nothing on Sunday", 1988) El día en que violé a Alma Mahler ("The Day I Raped Alma Mahler", 1988) El fulgor de África ("The Radiance of Africa", 1989) Y Tierno Galván ascendió a los cielos ("And Tierno Galván Ascended to the Heavens", 1990) Leyenda del César Visionario ("The Legend of the Visionary Caesar", 1992, winner of the Critics' Prize), Madrid, 1940 (1993) Las señoritas de Aviñón ("The Young Ladies of Avignon", 1995; the title is a reference to a painting by Pablo Picasso generally known in the English-speaking world by its French-language name, Les