The Bloody Countess

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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Santiago Caruso

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