Abstract
Chester Swann (1942-2012) was a Paraguayan musician, cartoonist, poet and writer. Best known as one of the pioneers of rock music in Paraguay in the 1970s, he published his short stories and novels at the start of the new millennium. His main body of short fiction is contained in the collection Selección Indigesta de Histerias Breves, comprising four volumes: Cuentos para no dormir, Cuentos para no soñar, Cuentos para no despertar, and Cuentos inenarrables para psicóticos procaces e insaciables, written between 1993 and 2000 and published in 2007 in digital format on his website tetraskelion.org. In his work, the author takes up the codes of science fiction and combines them with elements of Paraguayan and indigenous popular culture, to denounce human alienation through religion, capitalism and nationalism.