The Marx saga is a portrait of a family with history or, if you like, the tale of history through a family, that of Karl Marx, a surviving philosopher of himself, who attends indignantly the collapse of his ideology and the discrediting of his thought at the end of the twentieth century. Juan Goytisolo makes a kaleidoscope in which past and present, people, facts and speeches, merge in a daring critical endeavor that insists on novelizing reality from the basic ruse that Marx and his people (including his historical enemies) are still alive and thinking, although already powerless, watching television and noting the fall of communism. Published in 1993, one hundred years after the death of Karl Marx, the novel had an enormous impact in countries such as England, the United States, Canada, Germany and France.