The Pursuer

Julio Cortázar



José Muñoz (illustrations)

«I am as lonely as this cat, and much more lonely because I know I am, and it doesn’t. Condemned, it is sticking its claws in my hand. Bruno, jazz is not just music, and I am not just Johnny Carter.»

The Pursuer is one of Julio Cortázar’s greatest literary achievements and a classic of 20th century literature. With a magisterially-handled existential background, the story describes the final days of Johnny Carter, a virtuoso saxophonist whose life takes place on the knife-edge between lucidity and self-destruction.

Since its publication in 1959, this tribute by Cortázar to the genius Charlie Parker has aroused the passion of innumerable readers, who have considered it, like Rayuela, a formative experience. The great illustrator José Muñoz has been able to interpret with extraordinary talent the depth of this fiction in which jazz, nights of insomnia and Paris in the Fifties are the framework for a story beyond compare.



Illustrated by the creator of Alack Sinner, José Muñoz, winner of the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2oo7

18 x 26.5 cm; 88 pp. Cartoné con sobrecubierta

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José Muñoz

Buenos Aires, 1942



He was a protégé of Alberto Breccia and Hugo Pratt. He worked with Francisco Solano López on the famous series El Eternauta. With Carlos Sampayo, he would go on to create Alack Sinner, one of the most famous characters in the history of detective comics. In 1983, Muñoz was awarded the Yellow Kid Prize at the Lucca Festival in Italy; in 2002 he received the Max und Moritz Medal at the Erlangen Comic Fair in Germany and in 2007 he won the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Títulos publicados:
The Pursuer
Las fieras cómplices

Under Someone Else’s Rain

Juan Gelman



Carlos Alonso (illustrations)

«I close my eyes in the Roman sunshine. You pass over Rome, Sun, and in a few hours over what used to be my home, not taking me with you but lighting up places where I’m missing, which I claim, which claim me. You’ll warm them anyway, just when I’ll be shivering with cold.»

Juan Gelman wrote Under Someone Else’s Rain in 1980, during his exile in Rome. The texts in this book make up a mosaic of poignant reflections on exile, absence and grief. Created with a similar degree of feeling and depth, Carlos Alonso’s etchings resonate with Gelman’s words.

The combination of word and image generates an emotive statement of resplendent clarity.

160 x 240 mm; 64 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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Carlos Alonso

Tunuyán, Argentina, 1929



Painter, sculptor and illustrator, he studied Fine Art at the University of Cuyo, Mendoza, where he was taught by Lino Spilimbergo. He has illustrated works by Pablo Neruda, Dante Alighieri and Miguel de Cervantes. Since the seventies, the expressive power and social commitment that characterise his work have earned widespread recognition, with exhibitions all over the world. Between 1976 and 1981 he lived in exile in Rome and Madrid. Alonso is one of the great figures in Latin American art.

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Under Someone Else's Rain

The Great Zoo

Nicolás Guillén



Arnal Ballester (illustrations)

«In the aquarium of the Great Zoo, / swims the Caribbean. This seagoing / and enigmatic animal / has a crystal crescent, a blue back, a green tail, / a belly of dense coral, / gray fins of cylcone speed. In the aquarium, this inscription: “Beware: it bites”.»

An unusual bestiary and a surprising book of tales in which poetry, humour and social commentary flow together, The Great Zoo is one of the key works in Latin American poetry. Guillen’s astonishing verbal power achieves its maximum expression in these texts

With these illustrations, Arnal Ballester, winner of the National Prize for Illustration 2008, has managed to establish a surprising dialogue with the words of the great Cuban poet, to create a work without compare.

Arnal Ballester, National Prize for Illustration 2008

160 x 240 mm; 64 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-38-9

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Arnal Ballester

Barcelona, 1955



Teacher of illustration at the Massana School of Art and Design in Barcelona. He has published over fifty works. In 1993 he won the National Prize for books published in Spain for children and young people, and in 1994, he won the Illustrator of the Year prize at the Bologna-UNICEF Book Fair. In 1996 his work appeared in the international exhibition The Secret Garden, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Bologna Book Fair. In 2008 the Spanish Ministry of Culture awarded him the National Illustration Prize.

Títulos publicados:
The Great Zoo