EAN: 9780063349766

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 Also available in audio featuring narration by Colman Domingo Rachel Weisz and Michael Cera. “Instantly fascinating brimming with twisting narratives and unforgettable endings…  The Last Dream  stands alone as a major literary talent’s virtuosic debut.” —Kaveh Akbar New York Times bestselling author of  Martyr! “[A] real page turner.” —John Waters Making his English language debut the iconoclastic two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir comedy autofiction parody pastiche and gothic fiction. With this debut collection film legend Pedro Almodóvar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world formed by twelve stories carefully selected from his personal writings dating from the late ‘60s to the present. Almodóvar writes: “I’ve been asked to write my autobiography more than once and I’ve always refused. . . . I’ve never kept a diary and whenever I’ve tried I’ve never made it to page two in a sense then this book represents something of a paradox. It might be best described as a fragmentary autobiography incomplete and a little enigmatic.” Each entry reflects Almodóvar's most intimate obsessions as well as his evolution as an artist. In the title story “The Last Dream ” Almodóvar reflects on the death of his mother. Other entries in the collection include a love story between Jesus and Barabbas  a story of retribution that formed the basis for the film Bad Education a manic adventure about a film director searching for painkillers on a bank holiday weekend and a gothic tale centered around a repentant vampire. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

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