
Así murió el poeta Guadalupe
Alianza Literaria, 2009 | Thus Died the Poet Guadalupe
Awards
***Finalist in a Dashiell Hammet Prize***
Press
«A powerful narrative that masterfully combines an acidic frivolity with a distilled and chemically pure horror.» Ernesto Mallo, Página 12
Synopsis
(Thus Died the Poet Guadalupe) A mysterious recording arrives at a newspaper’s editorial office. It is an interview from a mental hospital in which someone—probably the interviewer—has deleted the questions so that the voice file has the tone of a confession. The enigmatic woman’s voice, a bit angry and resentful, tells of her meeting during the last years of Franco with a group of powerful South Americans who landed in a Spain with their own dazzling, worldly air. But behind the glamour of those characters, their poetry, their boleros, their marvelous women, lies death. And torture. Cristina Fallarás presents Thus Died the Poet Guadalupe as a journey with the most abject human beings disguised with greatness: a meeting between the most voluptuous seduction and systematic torture. A novel of intrigue, sarcastic and rugged, with a strong dose of social criticism, which delves into the mysteries of personality, in all its darkness—a disturbing darkness that ends up revealing how the poet Guadalupe has died.
MB Authors Fiction
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Max BESORA
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Albert GASSULL
- David B. GIL
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Gemma RUIZ
- Màrius SERRA
- Aránzazu SERRANO LORENZO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI