"Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929-94) remains relatively unknown outside his native Peru; his later work has received only the scantiest critical attention. This paper examines Los otros, Mariposas y Cornetas, and Tía Clementina, three late Ribeyro stories set in the Miraflores neighborhood of Santa Cruz. Examined in these stories are the simplicity, humor, and tenderness that give Ribeyro's work its extraordinary power."