It is the history of an agony whose extensions include the diverse levels of a novel; this agony is located mainly in the whole story, in two narrative spaces: one personal (the disease) another the social one (the old age). Disease and Old age are two "Death" situations whose tension is certainly born of the confrontation with the death. Cáceres Romero work up these dimensions limits with its immediate contexts, by the personnel, the family; by the social and the institutions. 208 pages. The author was born in Oruro in 1937. He is professor of Spanish language and Literature; studies of specialization in Montevideo and Madrid. Professor of the Faculty of Humanities of the UMSS. Juat available in Spanish.