Pedro Lemebel
Birth date: December 21, 1955
Pedro Lemebel's Books
This novel was a stunning history set in Pinochet's Chile. The main character is queen of her own apartment in Santiago (but to everyone else, a gentleman, a maricon, a pathetic figure). Starstruck by a handsome, educated revolutionary, she permits the Marxists to store boxes of unknown goods in h...
“Ho paura torero” è una storia d’amore? No. Però è una lezione d’amore. D’amore per l’amore, per la vita, per la libertà. Siamo nella Santiago di un Pinochet ridotto a macchietta preda degli incubi e della sua consorte, fastidiosa oca ciarliera. Nel Cile di Carlos, giovane rivoluzionario che veste i...
Of Pedro Lemebel, Roberto Bolaño has said: There is no battlefield on which Lemebel—cross-dresser, militant, third-world champion, anarchist, Mapuche Indian by adoption, a man reviled by an establishment that rejects the truth he speaks, possessor of a painfully long memory—hasn’t fought and lost. *...
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