Report on the Blind

Ernesto Sabato

Luis Scafati (Illustrations)

"Oh gods of the night! Oh gods of darkness, of incest and crime, melancholy and suicide! Oh gods of rats and caverns, of bats and cockroaches! Oh violent and inscrutable gods of dreams and deaths!"

From the confined world of a mad man, the details of a systematized delirium are described with a forewarned tragic ending: "When did this begin which shall now end with my murder?"

Published in 1961 in the novel On heroes and tombs, a classic Latin American literature. In Report on the Blind, Ernesto Sabato created a version of Hell, where the reader dares to abandon all hope, were there will be no redemption. Luis Scafati masterfully illustrates the details of this dark labyrinth in black and white.

180 x 265; 224 pgs. Hardback with jacket.

Arthur Gordon Pym

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

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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The Absent City

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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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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Classics in pocket version

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