"I am one of the great personalities of this recondite country, with the role of a castaway, a prisoner of myself. I, who belong to a poor, vulgar lineage, accustomed to living with my head bowed, am now the chosen one..." Fiction and reality overlap in this metaphor about power that, through the figure of a pig, presents a tyrant who poetically reviews his life's trajectory. The protagonist extols his unique character in the world, making difference not an integrative trait, but an elitist one.