In «La mosca soldado» (2004) Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (Santo Domingo, 1936 - ), one of the most prolific and well known current Dominican authors, conveys in a highly poetic language his fascination with archaeology and history, central topics of all of his narrative works. Unlike his earlier novels («Una y carne» and «El hombre del acordeon», among others) which are set in the Trujillo era, «La mosca soldado» focuses on an area of Dominican history which is not primarily political, but rather centered on human concerns told from a universal perspective. «La mosca soldado» includes a number of the author"s personal interests, particularly those of historical concerns related to archaeology and anthropology, which are of major importance in the book, and which form an essential part of the plot. Memory is the fundamental implement for the recovery of actions of the immediate and the remote past, and it is memory that allows the reconstruction of historical realities of an indigenous...