A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated "melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds" (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classic "I speak from my difference," wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist&nbsp;living through Chile's AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In&nbsp;brilliantly innovative essays--known as crónicas--that combine&nbsp;memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile's locas--a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims--his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly "disappeared" by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy.&nbsp;This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world.

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)

Lemebel, Pedro

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Classics

An effeminate homosexual known as the Queen of the Corner falls in love with a young straight man who is using his house to hold clandestine meetings and to store mysterious boxes, unaware that he and his friends are plotting the assassination of Pinochet, in a novel set against the backdrop of 1986 Chile.

My Tender Matador: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

GROVE PRESS

Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. My Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel of revolution and forbidden love, and a stirring portrait of Chile at an historical crossroads. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the mind of Pinochet himself as the world of Carlos and the Queen prepares to collide with the dictator's own in a fantastic and unexpected way.

United States

In "Grand Street #70: Against Nature", the pastoral meets the perverse. Jean-Jacques Schuhl describes chanteuse Ingrid Caven's debut as the voice of porn star Linda Lovelace. Abdourahman A. Waberi explores the French colonialist legacy in Djibouti and the midst of a future terrorist. Pedro Lemebel recounts the last definant act of a dying transvestite. Stephen Trombley's first-hand account of the execution of a friend accompanies Lucinda Devlin's stark photographs of death chambers. Victor Pelevin explains Pepsi's influence on Russia's first post-Glasnost generation, and Durs Grunbein and Via Lewandowsky catalogue six bizarre accidental deaths. Other highlights include short stories by emerging writers Terezia Mora and Shelley Jackson, a dialogue between Professor of Comparative Literature and music critic Edward Said and pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, and poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, Volker Braun, and Sharon Olds. Also featuring Cornelia Hesse-Honegger's meticulously detailed paintings of mutated insects collected in the vicinity of nuclear power plants, photographs by Kiki Smith, and fog sculptures by Fujiko Nakaya. Essays by Daniel Barenboim, Durs Grunbein, Edward Said, Stephen Trombley. Fiction by Shelley Jackson, Pedro Lemebel, Terezia Mora, Victor Pelevin, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Abdourahman A. Waberi. 
 8.25 x 9.5 in. 40 color, 25 b/w illustrations

Grand Street #70: Against Nature

Arts & Photography

SAID, EDWARD W.

Pelevin, Victor

Grünbein, Durs

Waberi, Abdourahman A.

TROMBLEY, Stephen

Smith, Kiki

Schuhl, Jean-Jacques

BARENBOIM, DANIEL

History & Criticism

Grand Street Pr

Tengo miedo torero [Próxima aparición]

FisicalBook

Poco Hombre [Próxima aparición]

EDITORIAL LAS AFUERAS (UDL)

Esta es una historia de amor en el Santiago de Chile del 86, ano del atentado a Pinochet. Un muchacho del Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez, que va a participar en la accion, vive una relacion sentimental con un gay que lo apoya, sin saber-sabiendolo, en sus planes politicos. Pero estos fracasanb y acaba tambien su relacion. Tengo miedo torero es el verso de una cancion que interpretaba Sara Montiel. Sus palabras sugieren, mas alla de au teatralidad y melancolia, la interioridad recondita de un pais que, segun lo define el autor, suena muy poco, suena a credito, no suena lo imposible.

Tengo miedo torero (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Editorial Anagrama

Tengo Miedo Torero (Spanish Edition)

Seix-Barral

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