The Stab / The Tango of Returning

Julio Cortázar

Pat Andrea (Illustrations)
Enrique Vila-Mata (Epilogue)

“On the fifth day he saw him following Flora who was going to the store…
and everything became future, like the unread pages in that novel left face down in
a sofa, something already written and which one didn’t even have to read because it was already fulfilled before reading..."

Pat Andrea arrived in Buenos Aires in the aftermath of general Videla’s coup. Shocked by the atmosphere of violence, he worked on a series of drawings whose obsessive subject was the stab,
an image taken from the tango with that title. Once in Europe, he contacted Julio Cortázar, who, fascinated with the images, decided to offer him a short story: The Tango of Returning.

220 x 290 mm; 96 pgs. Hardback with cloth binding.

Flowers of Evil

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