Libros del Zorro Rojo | Young & Adults | English

Helena's Dreams

2012-02-06T19:02:00.001+01:00

Eduardo Galeano

Isidro Ferrer (Illustrations)

«Sleeping, she saw us. Helena dreamt that we were queuing in an airport the same as all airports and we were made to pass, through a machine, our pillows. In each pillow, the pillow from last night, the machine read the dreams. It was a dangerous dream detecting machine for the safety of the general public.»

Throughout his life, Eduardo Galeano has been transcribing his wife's dreams. This book brings Helena's dreams together for the first time in the form of a story. Friends, strangers, journeys, exiles and reunions are intertwined through an itinerary of adventures.

Isidro Ferrer has been able to interpret, through exquisite sculptures, all the beauty of these stories dreamt for dreamers of any age.

165 x 240 mm, 64 pp, Hardback with Jacket
ISBN: 978–84–92412–96–9

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Knock Out

2012-02-06T19:02:00.000+01:00

Jack London

Enrique Breccia (Illustrations)

«"You're yellow! You're yellow!" "Open up, you cur! Open up!" Kill'm, Danny! Kill'm!" "You sure got 'm! Kill'm!»

Written between 1905 and 1911, the stories collected in Knock Out include A Piece of Steak, The Mexican, and The Game. Three boxing stories, three fascinating tales whose intensity grows page after page until perfection. Jack London and three memorable fights, with the epic character typical of his literature.

Enrique Breccia, one of the great contemporary illustrators, has drawn twenty black and white prints that confer a powerful realism to each of these adventures, packed with excitement and courage. Pages where the images and the stories attract our attention, eventually transforming it into pure excitement.

165 x 240 mm, 132 pp, Hardback with Jacket
ISBN: 978-84-92412-94-5

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National Prize

2011-10-27T16:43:00.000+02:00

for Publishing

We are delighted to share this wonderful news with you. Today we have been awarded with the National Prize for Publishing 2011 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

2011-08-26T13:53:00.003+02:00

Ambrose Bierce

Santiago Caruso (Illustrations)

«LORD, Savior of my soul, whither hast Thou led me? Here am I in the culprit's tower, a condemned murderer, and tomorrow at sunrise I shall be taken to the gallows and hanged! For whoso slays a fellow being, he shall be slain; that is the law of God and man.»

In 1680, the monastery of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps was the setting for the ill-fated love between a young Franciscan and the daughter of an executioner. Two centuries later, Ambrose Bierce interpreted the sinister details of the legend giving rise to what would be his only novel. Guilt, terror and destruction are the basis of his tragedy.

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter is one of the highest exponents of Gothic literature - and even more so of American. Santiago Caruso’s images depict accurately the intrigue in these pages, lighting up the dark beauty encoded in its pages.

16,5 x 24 cm, 140 pp,Hardback with Jacket
ISBN: 978-84-92412-47-1

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The Diaries of Adam and Eve

2010-11-22T10:57:00.004+01:00

Mark Twain

Francisco Meléndez (illustrations)

Written in a very humorous style, The Diaries of Adam and Eve prevails as one of Mark Twain’s greatest works. Through the personal story of the first inhabitants of Paradise, we witness their encounters, disagreements and accidents with unexpected surprise, the consequences of which are still regretted today.

Francisco Meléndez, a master of contemporary illustration, has depicted with great talent the Edenic couple in their thoughts and feelings, providing the story with pages of exquisite prints.

Adam’s Diary:
«This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals... Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain... WE? Where did I get that word-- the new creature uses it.»

140 x 210 mm; 112 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-68-6

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Francisco Meléndez

2010-11-21T11:55:00.000+01:00

Zaragoza, 1964

He was awarded in 1987 with the National Illustration Prize for The Black Sheep and Other Fables. As author and illustrator of The True Story of the Invention of the Submarine, he received the LIBER Prize for Best Edited Book and was awarded the Silver Medal at the «Most beautiful books in the world» exhibition in Leipzig in 1990. He was awarded the second National Prize for Illustration in 1992 for Leopold’s Dream. In 1996, Meléndez gave up his career and chose to live in a monastery where he founded an educational and social organization promoting artistic work among children, outside of academic circles.

Títulos publicados:
The Diaries of Adam and Eve

99 Fantastic Fables

2010-09-12T18:48:00.001+02:00

Ambrose Bierce

Carlos Nine (illustrations)

«The Grasshopper and the Ant:
One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored. “Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up some food for yourself, instead of singing all the time?” “So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried it all away.”»

In an excellent collection of fables by Ambrose Bierce, politicians with insatiable ambition, unscrupulous doctors, non-religious members of religious orders, waffling poets, unbalanced judges and lunatics of all sorts march beside human-like lions, mice, rabbits and turtles. All this happens under the sharp and precise pen of one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century.

99 Fantastic Fables carefully selected and brilliantly illuminated by Carlos Nine, another visionary of the art of illustration.

140 x 210 mm; 112 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-62-4

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Carlos Nine

2010-09-12T17:46:00.005+02:00

Buenos Aires, 1944

He used to write for The New Yorker, The New York Times and Le Monde, and he has also illustrated many books for publishers in The United States, Europe and Asia, while his works have been exhibited in Barcelona, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Poitiers and Rome. In 1988 he was honoured as Best Artist Abroad at the Barcelona Comic Fair; in 1993 he was awarded the Silver Clio Prize in New York; later in 1995 he was awarded the Caran d’Ache Prize for Illustration, and in 1997 he was awarded the International Catalònia Prize for Illustration. In 2001 the Superior School of Image in Angoulême awarded his life’s work.

Títulos publicados:
99 Fantastic Fables

At the Mountains of Madness

2010-03-08T11:08:00.004+01:00

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Enrique Breccia (illustrations)

«It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. Still came that eldritch, mocking cry –“Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!”...»

In the abysses of Antarctica, an expedition from the University of Miskatonic discovers traces of the civilisation of The Elder Things and an abominable secret: millions of years later, their executioners are still at work in the depths of the ice

An aura of horror fills the pages of this nightmare, whose underworld Enrique Breccia once again masterfully illustrates, following his worldwide bestseller Lovecraft.

165 x 240 mm; 164 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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Enrique Breccia

2010-03-07T11:51:00.000+01:00

Buenos Aires, 1945

He is the author of such emblematic works in the comic genre as The Life of Che (1969); Alvar Mayor (1976); The travels of Marco Mono (1981) and Lope de Aguirre (1989). He has published Lovecraft (2002) for the DC Comic publishing house, who also published his famous collaborations for the series Batman: Gotham Knights (2001) and Swamp Thing (2004). In 1963 he won the Gold Medal at the Salon of the Argentinean Cartoonists Association and the 1983 Pléyade Prize for the best graphic production of the year..

Títulos publicados:
Meeting
In The Mountains of Madness
Koolau el leproso

Letters to Ophélia

2010-02-25T11:15:00.001+01:00

Fernando Pessoa

Antonio Seguí (illustrations)

15th October 1920

Little Baby,

You have thousands, even millions, of good reasons for being irked, offended, and arky with me. But I’m not the one to blame. It’s Fate that has condemned my brain –if not definitively, then at least to a condition calling for serious treatment, which I’m not so sure I can get. I plan (without yet resorting to the celebrated May 11th decree) to enter a clinic next month, where I’m hoping for a treatment that will help me fend off the black wave that’s falling over my mind. I don’t know what the result of all this will be –I mean, I can’t imagine what it could be. Don’t wait for me. If I come to see you, it will be in the morning, when you’re on your way to the office in Poço Novo. Don’t worry. What happened, you ask? I got switched with Álvaro de Campos!

Always your

Fernando

48 letters and 16 poems bear witness to the secret romance between the Portuguese poet and young Ophélia Queiroz. A correspondence built up during the decisive years of Fernando Pessoa’s literary production.

Antonio Tabucchi’s prologue offers a deep reflection on these collected letters. Antonio Seguí, the great plastic artist, dedicated those letters more than thirty excellent watercolours.

Translation: Alejandro García Schnetzer

140 x 210 mm; 174 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-47-1

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Antonio Seguí

2010-02-24T22:37:00.000+01:00

Córdoba, Argentina, 1934

His work was awarded the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Print Biennial (1966), the International Prize for painting at Darmstadt, Germany (1967); the Grand Prix at the Krakow Print Biennial (1968); the Grand Prix of the National Arts Fund, Buenos Aires (1990); the Gold Medal of the Triennial of Graphic Arts in Norway (1995). In 2005 the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris organized a successful retrospective of his work.

Títulos publicados:
Parisian Tales
Letters to Ophélia

The Pursuer

2009-11-29T22:10:00.010+01:00

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

2009-11-28T20:09:00.000+01:00

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

2009-11-27T21:41:00.000+01:00

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

2009-11-26T16:01:00.000+01:00

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.

Títulos publicados:
Under Someone Else's Rain

The Great Zoo

2009-11-24T21:06:00.000+01:00

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

2009-11-23T16:16:00.000+01:00

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

Poe

2009-10-06T17:59:00.004+02:00

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.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra was nominated for Hans Christian Andersen Award 2010

160 x 140 mm; 58 pp. Paperback

The Bloody Countess

2009-04-14T16:59:00.007+02:00

Alejandra Pizarnik

Santiago Caruso (illustrations)

«Sitting on her throne, the countess watches people under torture, she listens to their screams. Her ancient, vile servant women are silent figures who bring fire, knives, needles, manacles; who torture young girls, then later bury them. Like the manacles or the knives, these old hags are instruments of possession. This dark ceremony has but a single, silent spectator.»

Accused of murdering six hundred young girls, Erzsebet Bathory is one of the most sinister criminals in history. In her castle in the Carpathians, at the end of the 17th century, the countess crouches over her victims to bleed them to death and steal their youth. Her evil, fascinating legend has survived over the ages.

The Bloody Countess is one of the key works by Alejandra Pizarnik. Its pages are a masterful portrait of sadism and madness, which the prints of the artist Santiago Caruso recreate to the point of perfection.

180 x 265 mm; 88 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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Arthur Gordon Pym

2009-04-13T16:37:00.000+02:00

Edgar Allan Poe

Luis Scafati (illustrations)

«Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the american brig Grampus, on her way to the south seas, in the month of june, 1827 with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivers; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the british schooner Jane Guy; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the antarctic ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that distressing calamity gave rise.»

Luis Scafati’s talented illustrations enlighten the delightful terrors of this novel, which encloses all the obsessions of the brilliant Edgar Allan Poe.

165 x 240 mm; 248 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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Dracula

2009-03-19T23:56:00.000+01:00

Luis Scafati

«Dead while the sun illuminates the day, the Count awaits the return of the shadows that will awaken him; then, like a sinister nocturnal animal, he will pursue new victims whose blood will feed his immortality.»

A journey through inhospitable places and closed rooms, where life and death savagely devour each other. With his excellent illustration work consisting of more than 50 drawings, Luis Scafati pays tribute to this mythical character and to the vast imagination that has inspired vampire literature for centuries.

265 x 210 mm; 108 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-96509-50-4 / Català: 978-84-96509-68-9

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About Dracula

2009-03-18T23:57:00.000+01:00

Luis Scafati and other vampires

The Absent City

2009-03-17T19:28:00.000+01:00

Ricardo Piglia

Luis Scafati y Pablo de Santis
Graphic novel

«It’s an island in a bend of the river, inhabited by the English, the Irish, the Russians, and by people who have come from all over the world, persecuted by the authorities, threatened with death, politically exiled. All the different languages are mixed together there, and all their voices can be heard. Nobody arrives, and those that arrive don’t want to return. Because that’s where the dead seek refuge.»
A journalist follows the tracks of a complex thriller: a secret museum, the story of a machine that can create its own stories, a utopian island, fictions that mix together and which exist within other fictions. The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia is a narrative tour de force in which crime thrillers and fantasy literature mix wonderfully.

Luis Scafati and Pablo De Santis have been able to interpret this giddy story to create a unique work, a marvellous example of the graphic novel.

180 x 265 mm; 88 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-92412-12-9

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Pablo De Santis

2009-03-17T07:15:00.000+01:00

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1963

His work was awarded the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Print Biennial (1966), the International Prize for painting at Darmstadt, Germany (1967); the Grand Prix at the Krakow Print Biennial (1968); the Grand Prix of the National Arts Fund, Buenos Aires (1990); the Gold Medal of the Triennial of Graphic Arts in Norway (1995). In 2005 the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris organized a successful retrospective of his work.

Títulos publicados:
The Absent City

The Black Cat

2009-03-17T05:56:00.000+01:00

Edgar Allan Poe

Luis Scafati (illustrations)

«I neither expect nor ask that you believe in this savage yet homely story I am going to write. It would be madness to expect this as even my own senses reject the evidence. Nevertheless, I am not mad and I can assure you I’m not dreaming.»

So begins The Black Cat, the story that gives this volume its title. In the short stories in this collection, the everyday reveals to the reader a second, darker nature. Hallucination or reality? An ambiguous threshold to the fantastical universe of Edgar Allen Poe.

Elvio E. Gandolfo (translation)

45 x 205 mm; 60/72 pp. Hardback | ISBN: 84-9795-142-5

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Metamorphosis

2009-03-17T04:55:00.000+01:00

Franz Kafka

Luis Scafati (illustrations)

«When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armour-plated back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly.»

A key work in his narrative production, Metamorphosis is a vast and vivid nightmare that concentrates all of the intensity of Franz Kafka. The illustrations by the great Argentine artist Luis Scafati wonderfully recreate the story’s strange atmospheres and characters.

César Aira (translation)

245 x 205 mm; 60/72 pp. Hardback | ISBN: 84-9795-003-8

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Classics in pocket version

2009-03-16T23:59:00.000+01:00

Kafka & Poe

Luis Scafati (illustrations)

A key work in his narrative production, Metamorphosis, is a vast and vivid nightmare that concentrates all of the intensity of Franz Kafka. The illustrations by the great Argentine artist Luis Scafati wonderfully recreate the story’s strange atmospheres and characters.

The Black Cat, the story that gives this volume its title. In the short stories in this collection, the everyday reveals to the reader a second, darker nature. Hallucination or reality? An ambiguous threshold to the fantastical universe of Edgar Allen Poe.

13 x 23 cm. 128 pp. Rústica con solapas

Luis Scafati

2009-03-15T19:14:00.000+01:00

Mendoza, Argentina, 1947

Studied Arts at the National University of Cuyo. His work has been exhibited in Barcelona, Frankfurt and Madrid and forms part of the collections of major museums in Buenos Aires; it is also owned by the House of Humour and Satire (Bulgaria), the Collection of Cartoons (Switzerland) and the University of Essex (England). His work has been published in Brazil, Czech Republic, England, France, Greece, Italy, Korea, Mexico and Spain. He won the Grand Prix of Honour at the National Comics Salon (Buenos Aires, 1981).

Títulos publicados:
Dracula
The Black Cat
Metamorphosis
La aventura del Town-Ho
The Absent City
Arthur Gordon Pym

Meeting

2009-02-11T11:54:00.000+01:00

Julio Cortázar

Enrique Brecci (illustrations)

«I remember the man who started to shout that we had to surrender, and the voice that answered him between two bursts of a Thompson, the voice of the Lieutenant, a roar above the shooting: “No one surrenders here, damm it!”»

Meeting describes the difficult days that followed the landing of the Granma on the coast of Cuba, when Ernesto Guevara made his mark as a combatant in the revolution. Written vividly in the first person, the voice of «Che» recalls their exhausting days spent among the mangrove swamps, the setbacks that he had to face alongside his comrades in arms and his baptism of fire at the battle of Alegría del Pío.

The intensity of Meeting and its epic quality based on profound emotions are an example of the incomparable talent of Julio Cortázar, and his ability to depict the profound humanity of one of the 20th century’s most admired figures.The illustrations of Enrique Breccia recreate the key moments of this account.

180 x 265 mm; 40 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-79-5

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Julio Cortázar with Zorro Rojo

2009-02-10T16:51:00.010+01:00

«There at the end is death, but don’t be afraid. Hold the watch tight with one hand, take the stem with two fingers, and rotate it smoothly. Now another installment of time opens, trees spread their leaves, boats run races, like a fan time continues filling with itself, and from it the eruption of air, the breezes of the earth, the shadow of a woman, the sweet smell of bread.» Instructions for winding a watch.

... and the literature of Julio Cortázar

Twenty-five years after the death of the author of Rayuela, Libros del Zorro Rojo invites you to discover its illustrated editions of Julio Cortázar’s work.

The Pursuer (+ info)
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. 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.

Meeting (+ info)
Meeting is one of the key narratives in Cortázar’s political work, recreating the period when Ernesto Guevara fought as a revolutionary soldier after disembarking at Granma on the coast of Cuba. An epic, moving tale, masterfully illustrated by Enrique Breccia, who, like Cortázar, has captured the full human dimension of Che.

The Bear’s Discourse (+ info)
For little ones, the children’s book The Bear’s Discourse, illustrated by Emilio Urberuaga, which Cortázar wrote specifically for two children in 1952. The bear in this story lives in the ventilation ducts of a building, and during the night observes the strange world of people. Taking the strange noises of the night, Cortázar was able to create a tale full of delight, capable of scaring away fear.

Flowers of Evil

2008-08-31T22:22:00.004+02:00

Charles Baudelaire

Pat Andrea (illustrations)

«Come, lie upon my breast, cruel, insensitive soul,
Adored tigress, monster with the indolent air;
I want to plunge trembling fingers for a long time
In the thickness of your heavy mane,

To bury my head, full of pain
In your skirts redolent of your perfume,
To inhale, as from a withered flower,
The moldy sweetness of my defunct love.»

Banned in France for offences against morality and good manners, the poems in this book had to wait ninety-two years before their public release.

Pat Andrea, a key figure in contemporary art, has been able to create one of the most astounding interpretations ever made of Baudelaire’ universe.

Jaime Siles (translation)

(Read the review published in the supplement Babelia here)

160 x 240 mm; 86 pp. Cloth-bound hardback. | ISBN: 978-84-92412-17-4

Bestiary

2008-08-30T15:05:00.008+02:00

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Enrique Alcatena (illustrations)

«There were lumpish hybrid things which only fantasy could spawn, molded with devilish skill, and colored in a horribly life-like fashion. Some were the figures of well-known myth gorgons, chimeras, dragons, cyclops, and all their shuddersome congeners. Others were drawn from darker and more furtively whispered cycles of subterranean legend, black, formless Tsathoggua, many-tentacled Cthulhu, proboscidian Chaugnar Faugn, and other rumored blasphemies from forbidden books like the Necronomicon.»

A unique bestiary which brings together the extraordinary beings that inhabit the stories of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Twenty-two creatures lead us to the disturbing world of the grand master of fantastic fiction. In an incredible descent into the abysses of terror, the illustrations of Enrique Alcatena show us the most disturbing and extraordinary beasts from the universe of H.P.L.

Elvio E. Gandolfo (translation)

160 x 240 mm; 76 pp. Hardback with cloth binding
ISBN: 978-84-96509-93-1 / Català: 978-84-96509-49-8

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Enrique Alcatena

2008-08-30T14:53:00.005+02:00

Buenos Aires, 1957

Teacher of English and American literature, self-taught cartoonist, he started to work professionally on comic strips and illustrations in 1975. He has collaborated with the publishers DC, Marvel and Dark Horse (USA); DC Thomson and Fleetway (Great Britain); Bastei (Germany); Albin Michel (France) and Eura (Italy), to mention just a few. The graphic universe of Alcatena has its roots in the Japanese illustrators of the Ukiyo-e, the Persian miniatures and the great illustrators of the early 20th century.

Títulos publicados:
Bestiary

The Dunwich Horror

2008-03-27T08:53:00.005+01:00

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Santiago Caruso (illustrations)

«No one, even those who have the facts concerning the recent horror, can say just what is the matter with Dunwich; though old legends speak of unhallowed rites and conclaves of the Indians, amidst which they called forbidden shapes of shadow out of the great rounded hills, and made wild orgiastic prayers that were answered by loud crackings and rumblings from
the ground below.»

The tragic story of Wilbur Watheley and the abominable events that occurred in Dunwich plunge the reader into a world inhabited by monstrous nightmares.

Santiago Caruso’s extraordinary illustrations heighten the intensity of one of the most fascinating stories of H. P. Lovecraft.

Elvio E. Gandolfo (translation)

160 x 240 mm; 86 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-92-4

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Santiago Caruso

2008-03-27T08:51:00.004+01:00

Buenos Aires, 1982

At the age of twenty-one he was awarded the First Prize for Drawing at the Salon of Plastic Arts at the Roverano Museum. He has collaborated with various press media in his home country as well as with foreign publishers. His work stands out both for its vigor as well as for its technique. It is no overstatement to say that the work of Carusso, which is well represented in the galleries and museums of Buenos Aires, is currently one of the most pleasant revelations of Latin American plastic arts.

Títulos publicados:
The Dunwich Horror
The Bloody Countess

Parisian Tales

2007-09-18T22:39:00.010+02:00

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

2007-05-23T18:48:00.005+02:00

Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Alberto Vázquez (illustrations)

160 x 140 mm; 58 pp. Paperback

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