Agustin Gomez-Arcos

Carnivorous Lamb (Little Sister's Classics)

An allegory of Franco’s Spain, this first novel written by a Spanish playwright in exile during the dictatorship narrates the life of a gay man from birth until his 25th birthday. The oftentimes bizarre relationships between this young man and the people around him reveal the traumas suffered by a bourgeois Andalusian family due to the Spanish Civil War and offer readers a glimpse of the many injustices experienced by individuals within both private and public circles. Masterfully written and unabashedly politically incorrect, this novel will make readers reflect on dictatorship, death, freedom, homosexuality, human relationships, and religion—but above all on love and hate. Una alegoría de la España franquista, esta primera novela escrita por un dramaturgo español exiliado durante la dictadura narra la vida de un hombre homosexual desde su nacimiento hasta que cumple los 25 años. Las extrañas relaciones entre el joven y las personas que lo rodean revelan los traumas causados por la guerra civil en una familia de la burguesía andaluza y le ofrece al lector un vistazo de las múltiples injusticias vividas por individuos tanto en público como en privado. Magistralmente escrita y descaradamente políticamente incorrecta, esta novela hará que el lector refleje sobre la dictadura, la muerte, la libertad, la homosexualidad, las relaciones humanas y la religión—pero más que nada sobre el amor y el odio.

El cordero carnívoro

The latest in the Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described “carnivorous lamb”) coming of age with a mother who despises him, a father who ignores him, and a brother who loves him. Author Agustin Gomez-Arcos left his native Spain for France in the 1960s to escape its censorship policies. The Carnivorous Lamb, originally written in French, won the Prix Hermes, and this, its 1984 English translation, was widely acclaimed.

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