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22.5x14.5 cm. Trad. de Rolando Costa Picazo. Algunas señales de uso.- La hermosa condesa Elizabeth Bathory de Hungría (1560-1613), educada en la mayor tradición del Renacimiento, poseedora de una riqueza incalculable, era una mujer poderosa, amada y admirada, pero también atormentada y perversa. Y es posible que haya sido la asesina más terrible de toda la historia. A los dieciséis años, la condesa se embarcó en una vida de libertinaje, asistida por su consejera espiritual, Darvulia, y por su fiel grupo de doncellas. El paso del tiempo y un exceso de placeres cada vez más extravagantes hicieron que la condesa temiera perder su belleza. Siguiendo el consejo de sus brujas empezó a tomar baños con la sangre de vírgenes. Una larga procesión de jóvenes muchachas eran "escogidas" para pasar la noche con Elizabeth. A veces se las agasajaba con prodigalidad, otras veces las muchachas eran asesinadas de inmediato para que la sangre fresca cayera sobre la frenética condesa. Drake Bathory -heredero directo de la condesa Elizabeth Bathory- es un emigrado húngaro que vive en Nueva York a finales del siglo XX. Su relación con las mujeres ha sido siempre desastrosa. Se siente obsesionado por la Hungría de su antecesora y, de regreso de un viaje a su tierra natal, confiesa ante una jueza de Nueva York haber cometido un crimen espantoso. Un relato extraordinario de dos épocas y dos personas reñidas con el momento que les tocó vivir. Las historias interrelacionadas de Drake y Elizabeth se funden de manera exquisita en una crónica de erotismo atemporal y cuento asombroso de juventud, libertad y poder. "La Condesa Sangrienta es una recreación excepcional y precisa de la historia por un autor inteligente y bien informado" -William Burroughs

1st edition thus. ~ Card wrappers, F. 32pp, b/w frontis, a fine copy. ~ Attractive little pamphlet. Capra Press Chapbook number 9.

1574231413 Aptly known as ''the anti-literary literary magazine'' (read anti-New Yorker), Exquisite Corpse, edited by prolific writer and translator Codrescu, has been delighting and outraging readers since 1988 with its often clever irreverence toward (and sometimes direct assault upon) anything that resembles ''the Establishment'' (which includes political correctness, institutionalized MFA programs and any kind of aesthetic conformity). Assembled in this hefty second volume are more than 100 of the best selections from the journal's first 10 years of publication (Volume 1, with poetry and essays, was published in 1999). While the voices and works represented here vary to the point of chaos (albeit a pleasant one), they are grouped into three sections. In ''Lives of the Poets,'' we find writings by Pete Seeger, Jan Kerouac and Sparrow, as well as those on the journal's internecine ''Ed Dorn controversy''--initiated by Mark Spitzer's negative portrait of his former mentor--which apparently still upsets certain souls. Included in fiction, which Codrescu prefers to call ''prose efforts,'' are stylistically varied works by Maggie Dubris, Eric Kraft and Hariette Surovell. And in the most substantial and engrossing section, ''Travel & Translation,'' we journey from a series on Derrida's possible use of LSD to ''The New Bucharest'' (''So much ugliness can only have been planned'') by Richard Collins and ''South Korea: At Play in the Year of the Dog,'' in which Robert Perchan describes being urged to consume dog meat to enhance his virility. The best aspects of the spirit of the Beats lives on in this frequently sassy, salty, silly and ultimately satisfying reading experience. -- Publisher's Weekly