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Dorothy Parker once wrote that her thing was to have a Martini, two at the most. After the third, she was already under the table, and by the fourth... under her host. With these premises, and displaying a humor that scratched the good habits of the bourgeoisie of that time, it is possible to understand that Dorothy herself became a character, and that her work was often read as the happy garnish of a life dedicated to the joke. witty. The years went by, and time has revealed that this indisputable protagonist of the most animated social gatherings of interwar New York, an unfaithful wife and caring lover, was also a first-rate writer, capable of summarizing in a few pages the hypocrisy of a society that grew in the shadow of a brand new money and customs that fell from old age. This is shown by the women and men who wander through their tales, pathetic beings who cry in exquisitely decorated rooms, flirt with an effort worthy of better causes, or giggle at a bar counter to forget they were ever happy. What's more, it is enough to get a little closer to those desperate and tender couples to realize that Dorothy Parker's prose has not died. On the contrary, her protest is more current than ever, her smile is still with us, her love for New York runs deep, and her irony is the best gift in a time of such perplexity.