The Black Cat

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

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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