History of the Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo and his context in the city of Cali. Caicedo has been one of the most interesting and original writers of Colombian literature, who followed a different route to the Macondo style of García Marquez, whose ethical position, affirmed in the phrase «living more than twenty-five years is foolish,» led him to commit suicide in 1977, precisely at the age of 25. A precise x-ray of this endearing character.