Jaime Chávarri de la Mora. Cinema director. Madrid, 1943

Word employed to confer meaning on an object of design. If good taste in the absence of humour is academic, and humour is a process whereby definitions are redefined in terms of what was not apparent at first glance, then Tusquets is the personification of the anti-academic, and a major perpetrator of parables: parable objects, parable houses, parable conversations.