La misteriosa desaparición de la Marquesita de Loria

La misteriosa desaparición de la Marquesita de Loria / The Mysterious Disappearance of Marquesita de Loria

Novel , 1980

Alfaguara

Pages: 165

Fatality, seduction, mystery. Three keys to eroticism. Beautiful, naive, perverse beyond herself, and suddenly liberated by a providential widowhood, the young Marquesita de Loria wanders like an aphrodisiac ghost of flesh and bone through the most aristocratic streets of 1920s Madrid. Always with one foot in the other side of the moon, the marquesita submits to a learning experience more sensual than sentimental, acknowledging in herself the malevolent power of seduction, that enchantment which brushes against dissolution or death. Animated by the semi-fantastical eroticism characteristic of José Donoso's pen, 'The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquesita de Loria' exposes the disturbing, unmanageable vibration of our most secret sensibility: eros as an instrument of pursuit, as powerful as it is futile, of an identity that fades away in the gaze of others.