Decía Francisco Umbral que él solo sabía escribir memorias. Sin embargo, detrás del personaje creado por él mismo se encontraba una vida llena de incógnitas que quedaron sin responder tras su muerte en 2007. Los más de 10.000 artículos y casi 200 novelas escritas, que siempre tomaron como referencia sus propias experiencias personales, no hicieron otra cosa que fomentar el mito y el enigma del dandy.

Francisco Umbral used to say that he only knew how to write memoirs. However, behind the character created by himself was a life full of unknowns that remained unanswered after his death in 2007. The more than 10,000 articles and almost 200 novels written, which always took his own personal experiences as a reference, did not another thing to foment the myth and the enigma of the dandy.