Monday 14 March 2022

Malas Mujeres

by María Hesse
Locas, putas, brujas, liantas, manipuladoras...; en definitiva, MALAS.

Welcome to the coven! The heroines of El Placer, such as Lilith, Eve, Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene and Daenerys Targaryen, proudly reappear in María Hesse’s gorgeous new book, together with Zahara, Pandora, Aphrodite, Medusa, Nevenka Fernández, Echo, Christina Rosenvinge, Salome, Circe, Hecate, Morgana, the witches of Salem, Olympe de Gouges, Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina, Medea, La Llorona, Jocasta, Lady Macbeth, Irene of Athens, Carmen, Komako Kimura, Juana la Loca, Urraca, Britney Spears, Coco Chanel, Phyllis Dietrichson of Double Indemnity, Irena Dubrovna of Cat People, Billie Holiday, Alex “bunny boiler” Forrest of Fatal Attraction, Monica Lewinsky, Yoko Ono, Charlotte Brontë, Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, Barbarella, Princess Leia, Rey, Ellen Ripley, Imperator Furiosa, Maeve and Dolores of Westworld, Björk, Offred of The Handmaid’s Tale, Girls, Fleabag, Michaela Coel and Olive Kitteridge — among others.

The phrase “Este libro se empezó en el año en que todas quisimos ser mafiosas, maravillosas y peligrosas” refers to the 2021 song by Nathy Peluso.

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