In the end, the majority of the pichiciegos die, suffocated by carbon monoxide as the advancing snow blocks their cave's ventilation. Only one survives, and we gradually learn that he is telling his story to the novel's narrator, back in Buenos Aires. Collaborations In 2006 Centre for Experimentation (CETC) of Teatro Colón proposed that as a national poet Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill work with the composer of his choice. He chose avantgarde composer Oscar Edelstein who went on to make the script for "Eterna Flotación-Los monstruito from two poems of Fogwill, "Contra el Cristal de La Pecera de Acuario" ("Against the Glass of the Aquarium") " and "El Antes de los Monstruito" ("Before the Monsters") from his book "Lo Dado" ("The Given"), transforming the two poems into a continuous discourse that functions as a dramatic text. It was the first musical work to speak about the presidency of Carlos Menem. The opera depicted the incredible decadence into which Argentina fell which led to economic collapse and a series of economic problems have been referred to as the “Tango Crisis.” "The Festival of the Monsters" was a short story written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares and it is with this in mind that Fogwill referred to "the monsters" in his book of poems "Lo Dado" ("The Given"). In Edelstein's opera he creates two protagonists, Monstruo I (Juan Peltzer - Baritone), and Monstruo II (Lucas Werenkraut -Tenor). This was the second collaboration between Fogwill and Oscar Edelstein, the first being in 1997 where in Edelstein's work "Klange, Klange Urutaú" Fogwill translated and recorded a poem of Fernando Pessoa. The music critic Federico Monjeau described the reading as "expressive and strange." Works Novels Malvinas Requiem: Visions of an Underground War (Translator Nick Caistor. Publisher, Serpent's Tail, 2007 (Los pichiciegos, 1983) The Good New (La buena nueva, 1990) A Pale History of Love (Una pálida historia de amor, 1991) To Live Outside (Vivir afuera, 1998) Songs of Sailors in the Pampas (Cantos de marineros en las pampas, 1998), anthology La experiencia sensible (2001) En otro orden de cosas (2002) Urbana (2003) Runa (2003) Un guion para Artkino (2009) Nuestro modo de vida (2014) (posthumous) La introducción (2016) (posthumous) Short stories My Dead Punks (Mis muertos punk, 1980) Japanese music (Música japonesa, 1982), Imaginary Armies (Ejércitos imaginarios, 1983) Birds of the Head (Pájaros de la cabeza, 1985) Punk Girl (Muchacha punk, 1992) Diurnal