Laudanum and powder, or, pleasure and death. Eros and Thanatos. Between these two extremes, the narration that gives the title to this book takes place, which is nothing leá than a voyage to the Bilbao of 1912.The other narrations are also a kind of voyage; from the mythical Middle Ages to the post-war anarchist circles. Each narration has it's own atmosphere although they all have something in common: the search for pleasure and the impoáiblity of eluding death.