Libros de Lydia Vázquez Jiménez (3 libros)

In this poignant work of biographical fiction, the narrator Abdellah, a grown man living in Paris, recalls his childhood home of Morocco, sharing his cherished earliest memories with the reader. The product of the twin riverside cities of Rabat and Salé—places touched by modernity but still rife with poverty—the protagonist shares his knowledge of the different currents that imbue these cities with life, as well as their numerous Moroccan mysteries: witches, the hamman, the baraka, and the ziara. As he recounts his upbringing in Morocco, with all of its people, its secret influences, its ...

Tired of her medical studies and still reeling from her lover's suicide, Laure seeks refuge in alcohol, refuses love, and sets out on a dangerous and exciting journey into the depths of the Pigalle neighborhood's nightlife in 1960s Paris. Soon she becomes Gigola, a young androgynous garçonne, attractive because of her rebelliousness—short hair, cane in hand, and dressed in a black velvet smoking jacket—and who expresses her defiance by selling her body. This barrier-breaking novel, a pioneer for current feminist tendencies, faithfully portrays the garçonne phenomenon that defined an...

Published by the author’s daughter after his death, this brief novel narrates a sexual encounter as experienced by the author himself. A night rife with sensuality is described with ample lyricism and mysticism, relating the encounter between two hedonistic characters, the initiating teacher Gide and the innocent but not-too-modest young Ferdinand. Openly autobiographical, this lustful tale explores desire as the engine that drives the one-way journey into the depths of the self. Publicada por la hija del autor luego de su muerte, esta breve novela narra un episodio sexual según...