Ella, maldita alma

Can the soul find refuge in a loaf of bread? Or take the form of an electric guitar called Sirena in the hands of a young fisherman? Since antiquity, humanity's most intense quest has been for the soul's dwelling place. Here is a simple, ironic, and surprising answer to that great historical enigma. The result of a difficult round trip to the depths of the soul. She, Damned Soul is an intimate work that ultimately bursts forth into the world like a Big Bang. A book of short stories or a polyphonic novel, here the writing locates souls. And their incarnations are as astonishing as they are humble: a swarm of bees, the cork of an alcoholic's bottle, an anarchist parrot, a ventriloquist's dummy who falls in love and speaks French to peasant women: Merci dame, la plus belle... Almost three decades after its first publication, this expanded edition with new, previously unpublished stories allows us to enter once again into one of the most exciting, human, free, and committed narrative universes in contemporary literature.