Parisian Tales

Mario Benedetti



Antonio Seguí (illustrations)

«In the house on Rue Blomet, Madame Benoit greeted us with her usual sharp and distant smile. He held out his hand to her and said in his usual way that he was pleased that Mrs. Méndez [Madame Mandés] had arrived safely. She smiled and stammered out another banal pleasantry inreply. He got her key and they went up to the room.»

The stories in this book talk about exile, love, loneliness, indifference and friendship. They are deep stories, told in a simple way with Paris as their common background. However this is not the Paris that one finds in postcards but rather it is that Paris which marked the life of many generations during the 1960s and 1970s. The main characters are men and women whose way of feeling and thinking moves us and inevitably captivates us.

The illustrations by the great artist Antonio Seguí recreate this raw, poetic and sometimes comical world that beats through in these memorable pages of Mario Benedetti.

160 x 240 mm; 58 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-38-9

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Poe

Jordi Sierra i Fabra



Alberto Vázquez (illustrations)

«Some days they were forced to eat bread and molasses. There was nothing else. Maria Clemm did needlework. Virigina was too weak. They often went cold rather than use fuel for the stove; but they could not scrimp on whale oil or petrol for the lamp, because in the dark it was impossible to write.»

In these pages, Edgar Allan Poe’s life is given its human dimension, that of a writer whose genius must struggle against adversity. Scandal, misery, death, madness and, throughout it all, the forging of a sublime body of work, fill the days and nights of a creative visionary, one who was marked by tragedy.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra, winner of the National Prize for Young People’s and Children’s literature, has succeeded in creating a vivid portrait of Poe and his work, which Alberto Vázquez has endowed with extraordinary images.

160 x 140 mm; 58 pp. Paperback

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