Translation Rights TQE / Wonders in the land of Alice

Four juicy stories that reveal the secret life of some well-known        fictional characters

Was a woman as beautiful and intelligent as Penelope true to Ulysses during all those years in spite of her hundred young suitors or did she give into temptation? We know about the nights of Sherezade, but what experience did the fiction of her one thousand and one stories feed from? With regard to Doctor Frankenstein, did he have tendencies of necrophilia? Did he compensate the melancholy of his morbid experiment with the carnality, very much alive, of other pleasures? And what about young Alice? Did she continue to live in her wonderland as an adult? What prodigies awaited at the other side of the mirror when sensuality made its way into her body? Penelope, Sherezade, Víctor Frankenstein and Alice come alive and experience erotic relationships that bring the reader to Ancient Greece, to Arabia, to Victorian England in order to travel through old myths and stories with a fresh gaze, undoubtedly more sensual, and to explore the relationship between wisdom and beauty, between eroticism and language.

Antonio Altarriba (Zaragoza, 1952) is a French Literature professor at the University of País Vasco.  Both interested in the visual aspects of writing and the narrative possibilities of imagery and in erotic literature, he has written several essays and books on this field. As a fiction writer, he has published, among others, Cuerpos entretejidos, finalist of the XVIII La Sonrisa Vertical Prize. He is also writer of several comic books.