by Alberto Ruy Sánchez · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420474014
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How many faces does a man have when talking about desire? How many hands? Is it possible to talk about fire from fire? Eroticism is an illusion. It exists as a ghost written on the body. In the skin we carry that burning destiny and it sprouts like a sleepwalking being. His adventure is wanting to touch the fire, dreaming awake, being amazed, trying to understand, making mistakes, caressing and becoming the fire he is touching. To live a brief and equivocal epic of touch. The editor of the erotic magazine El jardín perfumado hates what is classified as erotic literature and detests being considered the author of that genre. He tries to write about the Arab Kama Sutras. But life comes to interrupt him, to disrupt him and show him every time he is wrong. An obsessive potter thinks of his craft as a form of Kama Sutra. The consequences make us enter with him into the oven of life. And of death. A book of anti-love adventures in the form of a hand, an amulet, a crazy search for eroticism. Affirmation of sensuality and doubt.
Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is a Mexican writer and editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Since 1988 he has been the chief editor and founding publisher of Latin America's leading arts magazine, Artes de México. He has been a visiting professor at several universities including Stanford, Middlebury and La Sorbonne, and has been invited to give lectures in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America. His work has been praised by Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Severo Sarduy, Alberto Manguel and Claude Michel Cluny and has received awards from several international institutions.
