Mysterious Disappearance of Marquise of Loria by José Donoso (.ePUB)
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The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria by José Donoso, Translated by Megan McDowell
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Overview: At last in English, this sensual and semi-fantastic erotic novel by José Donoso is a thrilling and unsettling exploration of identity and sexual desire
All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of a middling Nicaraguan diplomat posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her darling Paquito, heir to one of the largest fortunes (and most august titles) in Spain. Paquito, as if on cue, dies of diphtheria, leaving the young Marquise alone, free, and inconceivably rich. Blanca isn’t exactly sure what she wants, but she knows that she’ll get it: “She never doubted her beauty, and she knew very well that the beautiful had the right to the best in everything.”
A parodic paean to the literary erotica of 1920s Madrid, this luxurious and disturbing work details the sexual awakening of the Marquise of Loria as her white-gloved chauffeur shuttles her from tryst to tryst. But it’s not all champagne and roses: Blanca’s mother-in-law, Casilda, is scheming with her gang of sycophants to take back “their” fortune from this newly-minted Loria. Once the mysterious Luna, a Weimaraner pup, infiltrates Blanca’s chambers, the story shapeshifts from an elegy to a glittering bygone era of Patek Philippes and gold-plated Deringers into something more savage: a psychological thriller and a profound investigation—what exactly hides beneath those surfaces that the rich are so busy gilding and polishing? Clearly, the author of The Obscene Bird of Night is never content to merely titillate.
As exuberant as it is explicit—and elegantly translated into English for the first time by Megan McDowell—The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria shows the Boom-era master Donoso in a lighter mode, and irresistible.
Genre: Fiction > Erotic
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