This nouvelle is part of the fantastic genre, although it has links to “border literature”. Two stories are intertwined here: one, that of the adolescent Inés, takes place in the near past, in the setting of her grandmother’s country house; the other, on the other hand, distances itself from the first in more than a century to resume the echoes of a truncated love between the forts that marked the outpost against the so-called “desert”, in the abyss between the antinomian terms on which it was built the Argentine nation: civilization – represented by the white man and the project of unconditional adherence to Europe – and barbarism, where the Indian, conceived as the “savage”, dark reverse of “progress”, resisted tenaciously.

The rustic and brutal pampa, traversed by men and horses, united in the fight to survive. The meeting of the temporalities of both stories, caused by the intervention of the fantastic, allows the unfolding, agile and exciting, of the plot of El grito. (Back cover text, fragment)