Back Human Matter
Chapters (20)
  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Introduction
  6. First Notebook: Modo & Modo
  7. Second Notebook: Black Binding
  8. Pages Attached to the Second Notebook
  9. First Sketchbook: Green Cover with Indian Motifs
  10. Pages Attached to the First Sketchbook
  11. Third Notebook: White Cover
  12. Second Sketchbook: Don Quixote
  13. Fourth Notebook: Red and Blue Stripes on a White Background
  14. Pages Attached to the Fourth Notebook
  15. Third Sketchbook: “Scribe”
  16. Fourth Sketchbook: Leather Cover, No Branding, No Name
  17. Fifth Sketchbook: Spanish Binding
  18. Author’s Note
  19. Postscript
  20. Translator’s Acknowledgments

• García Soto, Gonzalo. Born in 1930. Bricklayer’s helper. Booked in 1960 for violating curfew.

• García, Domínguez. Born in 1927. Driver. Booked in 1964 for possession of explosives.

• Gallardo Ordóñez, Mario. Born in 1929. Leatherworker. Booked in 1959 for distributing subversive propaganda.

• Galvez Sandoval, María Virginia. Born in 1932. Teacher without a degree. Booked in 1954 for being affiliated with the Party for Revolutionary Action.

• Gudiel López, María Luisa. Born in 1934. Lives with her parents. Booked in 1956 for weapons possession.

• Hernández Carrillo, Víctor. Born in 1910 in Puerto Barrios. Fisherman. Booked in 1963 for theft of telephone cable.

• Ingenieros Fernández, Pablo. Born in 1950. Auto body repair worker. Booked for desecrating the national flag.

• Lorenzana Marcio, Iván. Born in 1935. Lives with mother and brothers in Zone 1. Draftsman. Booked in 1960 for possession of war supplies.

• Molina López, Efraín. Born in 1932. Typographer. Booked in 1960 for allegedly being responsible for a bomb explosion.

• Méndez Arriaza, Pedro. Born in 1925. Dental technician. Booked in 1961 for subversive activities.

• Nadal Chinchilla, Manuel de Jesús. Born in 1930. Single. Classical musician. Booked in 1955 for being a communist sympathizer.

• Ochoa Santizo, Jorge. Born in 1943. Auto body repair worker. Booked in 1960 for suspicious activity. Lives with his mother, a whore.

Friday.

II. COMMON CRIMES

• Velásquez Vásquez, Salvador. Born in 1925. Shoeshine. Booked in 1937 for participating in forbidden games. In 1940 for theft. Set free in 1941.

• Menchú Flavian, Juan. Born in 1924. Merchant. Booked in 1940. Peddler without a license.

• Papandreas Kaleb, Jorge. Born in 1927. Student. Booked in 1942 for disobeying his father. In 1965 for fraud and death threats.

• Rosales Vidal, Francisco. Born in 1925. Typographer. Booked in 1940 for playing soccer on public streets.

• Figueroa García, Florentino. Born in 1925. Shoeshine. Lives alone. Booked in 1945 (Revolutionary Government) for shining shoes without a license.

• Castañeda Contreras, Catalina. Born in 1926. Domestic worker. Booked in 1940 for practicing clandestine prostitution at home and in La Selecta restaurant.

• Mejía de Mendizábal, Julia. Born in 1920. Home address Aurora Alley, #11. Booked in 1940 for attempted murder of her husband, Gabriel Mendizábal.

• Masserli R., Carlos Fernando. Born in 1926. Lives with his parents. Apprentice mechanic. Booked in 1941 for disobeying his father. In 1948 for pederasty.

• Chávez A., Luis. Born in 1921. Lives with his family. Booked in 1940 for vagrancy. In 1954 for theft.

• Herrera Hernández, Petrona. Born in 1925. Lives alone. Domestic worker. Booked in 1941 for stealing a poncho, a sheet, a dress, and a mat from Mr. Justo Espada España.

• Sarceño O., Juan. Born in 1925. Gardener. Lives with his sister. Booked in 1945 (Revolutionary Government) for dancing the tango in the brewery “El Gaucho,” where it is prohibited.

• Funes Coronado, Víctor. Born in 1923 in Champerico. Single. Booked in 1942 for fishing with a cast net during closed season.

• Marroquín Cardona, Vicente. Born in 1926. No profession. Booked in 1939 for complicity in bicycle theft.

• Chávez Coronado, María. Born in 1924 (a minor). Profession: sex worker. She has neither children nor a known male partner. Illiterate. Arrested in August 1939 in Barberena for performing lewd acts in public.