Caterva

<i>Caterva</i> (meaning throng or horde) tells the story of seven erudite homeless and semi-incompetent radicals traveling from city to city in an attempt to foment a revolution: conspiring with striking workers setting off bombs and evading the local authorities. But this is no political thriller. Like his literary descendant Julio Cortazar--who mentions this book in <i>Hopscotch</i>--Filloy is far more concerned with his characters' occasionally farcical inner lives than with their radical machinations. With its encyclopedic feel and its satirical look at both solidarity and nonconformity <i>Caterva</i> is considered to be among Filloy's greatest achievements.