Extravagantly stylish, searingly critical dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time
'He speaks brilliantly for a difference that refuses to disappear' Garth Greenwell
'Astonishing and tender and quite outrageous... What a powerful, mould-breaking voice' Tomasz Jedrowski
"I speak from my difference" wrote Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean writer who became an icon of resistance and queer transgression across Latin America. His innovative essays-known as crónicas-combine memoir, reportage, history and fiction to bring visibility and dignity to the lives of sexual minorities, the poor and the powerless.
In a baroque, freewheeling style that fused political urgency with playfulness, resistance with camp, Lemebel shone a light on lives and events that many wanted to suppress: the glitzy literary salon held above a torture chamber, the queer sex and community that bloomed in Santiago's hidden corners and the last days of trans sex workers dying of AIDS, each cast in the starring role of her own private tragedy.
As Chile emerged from Pinochet's brutal dictatorship into a flawed democracy, Lemebel re-wrote the country's history from the margins, and today his subversive voice echoes around the world.
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'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in the cesspit or in nothingness, Pedro Lemebel will still be a star' Roberto Bolaño
'Pedro Lemebel is alive! And I am in love' Keith Ridgway
'A truly astonishing body of work' Lauren John Joseph
'A truly sensational addition to our collective heritage' Neil Bartlett
"Lemebel made a career out of lobbing incendiaries both literary and political... an extraordinary-a necessary-voice in world literature... Lemebel's essays are incantatory and mutant... Part memoir, part reportage, part fantasia, they narrate history as it was experienced underground" - 4Columns
"A seriously funny, unholy combination of postmodern critic and drag performer, Lemebel wrote in an ornate literary style that combines the high with the low unapologetically, almost rudely... He ruffled so many feathers because he wrote like no one else... Tender, funny, angry, elegiac... By challenging and provoking his audience, Lemebel almost seems to gaze through the page at the reader sitting there idly. His method was not purely an aesthetic formula; it constituted a way of living" - LA Review of Books
"This intoxicating and profane selection has been rendered into English with eye-bulging frankness by Gwendolyn Harper. Each brief "crónica" is a mini-revelation. Sexy, political and deeply humane, these coiled essays demonstrate clearly the perennial importance of radical speech acts... Exquisite" - Washington Post
"He is one of the world's great writers; everyone should read him" - New York Times Book Review
"Lemebel's critique of the western colonisation of sexual identity was almost as vicious as it was of the Pinochet dictatorship" - Observer
"Spiky, relentlessly caustic... stylish, challenging, and uncompromising" - Tribune
"Righteous rage, cutting humor, and lyric marvelousness unite Lemebel's essays... A Last Supper serves both as a political counterhistory and an intimate depiction of Chile's radical queer communities before, during, and after the two-decade dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet" - Document
"A literary explosion... Lemebel creates a "queer baroque", a language of excess to describe lives typified by deprivation... Lemebel's writing is beautiful and vicious, and Harper has done a brilliant job translating it" - London Magazine
"What a joy for English readers to at last meet this humanist provocateur who celebrates and memorializes queer lives in a fascist state with fire, love, and a tireless spirit of play" - Publishers Weekly
"[His] writing leaps from slang to poetry, filth to beauty so quickly it collapses any distinction between them... The crónicas in A Last Supper of Queer Apostles still feel urgent. His phrases and clauses tumble over each other in their desire to get in one more joke, one more neologism, one more vignette, one more loca" - Sewanee Review
"Vividly captures the raw vibrancy of Lemebel's writing, showcasing his fearless engagement with themes of queerness, marginalisation and political activism. Harper's translation skilfully preserves Lemebel's linguistic nuances and quirks, both his dark sense of humour and tender self, offering Anglophone readers a rare glimpse into a world that defies simplification and classification" - The London Magazine, The Best Books of 2024
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'He speaks brilliantly for a difference that refuses to disappear' Garth Greenwell
'Astonishing and tender and quite outrageous... What a powerful, mould-breaking voice' Tomasz Jedrowski
"I speak from my difference" wrote Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean writer who became an icon of resistance and queer transgression across Latin America. His innovative essays-known as crónicas-combine memoir, reportage, history and fiction to bring visibility and dignity to the lives of sexual minorities, the poor and the powerless.
In a baroque, freewheeling style that fused political urgency with playfulness, resistance with camp, Lemebel shone a light on lives and events that many wanted to suppress: the glitzy literary salon held above a torture chamber, the queer sex and community that bloomed in Santiago's hidden corners and the last days of trans sex workers dying of AIDS, each cast in the starring role of her own private tragedy.
As Chile emerged from Pinochet's brutal dictatorship into a flawed democracy, Lemebel re-wrote the country's history from the margins, and today his subversive voice echoes around the world.
____
'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in the cesspit or in nothingness, Pedro Lemebel will still be a star' Roberto Bolaño
'Pedro Lemebel is alive! And I am in love' Keith Ridgway
'A truly astonishing body of work' Lauren John Joseph
'A truly sensational addition to our collective heritage' Neil Bartlett
"Lemebel made a career out of lobbing incendiaries both literary and political... an extraordinary-a necessary-voice in world literature... Lemebel's essays are incantatory and mutant... Part memoir, part reportage, part fantasia, they narrate history as it was experienced underground" - 4Columns
"A seriously funny, unholy combination of postmodern critic and drag performer, Lemebel wrote in an ornate literary style that combines the high with the low unapologetically, almost rudely... He ruffled so many feathers because he wrote like no one else... Tender, funny, angry, elegiac... By challenging and provoking his audience, Lemebel almost seems to gaze through the page at the reader sitting there idly. His method was not purely an aesthetic formula; it constituted a way of living" - LA Review of Books
"This intoxicating and profane selection has been rendered into English with eye-bulging frankness by Gwendolyn Harper. Each brief "crónica" is a mini-revelation. Sexy, political and deeply humane, these coiled essays demonstrate clearly the perennial importance of radical speech acts... Exquisite" - Washington Post
"He is one of the world's great writers; everyone should read him" - New York Times Book Review
"Lemebel's critique of the western colonisation of sexual identity was almost as vicious as it was of the Pinochet dictatorship" - Observer
"Spiky, relentlessly caustic... stylish, challenging, and uncompromising" - Tribune
"Righteous rage, cutting humor, and lyric marvelousness unite Lemebel's essays... A Last Supper serves both as a political counterhistory and an intimate depiction of Chile's radical queer communities before, during, and after the two-decade dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet" - Document
"A literary explosion... Lemebel creates a "queer baroque", a language of excess to describe lives typified by deprivation... Lemebel's writing is beautiful and vicious, and Harper has done a brilliant job translating it" - London Magazine
"What a joy for English readers to at last meet this humanist provocateur who celebrates and memorializes queer lives in a fascist state with fire, love, and a tireless spirit of play" - Publishers Weekly
"[His] writing leaps from slang to poetry, filth to beauty so quickly it collapses any distinction between them... The crónicas in A Last Supper of Queer Apostles still feel urgent. His phrases and clauses tumble over each other in their desire to get in one more joke, one more neologism, one more vignette, one more loca" - Sewanee Review
"Vividly captures the raw vibrancy of Lemebel's writing, showcasing his fearless engagement with themes of queerness, marginalisation and political activism. Harper's translation skilfully preserves Lemebel's linguistic nuances and quirks, both his dark sense of humour and tender self, offering Anglophone readers a rare glimpse into a world that defies simplification and classification" - The London Magazine, The Best Books of 2024
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