El indio ciclope (The Indian cyclops)
by Guillermo Roz
Description
Not so much an illustrated novel as a technicolour delirium. Martin Scorsese meets Jack Kerouac under LSD. Enter, read and discover.
The grotesque and fearsome Diotisalvi brothers control all the illegal business in New York. One day, completely by surprise, multi-millionaire Camel Horovitz exiles them and imposes a new reign of terror. Old Camel will only allow the Diotisalvi to return to New York on one impossible condition: they must find a way to rid him of the double hump that has earned him his nickname. The Diotisalvis embark upon a crazy adventure in search of a solution, a journey that will take them to Ushuaia, at the very ends of the earth. There, they will encounter Carlos Gardel’s albino twin, Charles Darwin’s lost son, a Madrileñan bullfighter and his bulls, a woman who is crossing Patagonia on foot and gradually becomes black, a dinosaur, a vast ship, a forgotten jazz singer, the Japanese creator of Godzilla, an Indian woman who speaks 364 languages... And a Cyclops, that mysterious legend, a phenomenon capable of performing a thousand and one miracles.
“The words that could have come from the writer, are provided
here by the illustrator. One might think that going through life with
only one eye would impede a person’s vision but in the case of
this Patagonian native it is an advantage, because it enables him
to do something that the rest of us – mafia hitmen, albino singers,
dinosaur hunters or black servants – cannot: to see the comic side
of tragic situations. We invite the readers of this book to follow suit.
To laugh, because life is short and it usually ends badly. And that’s
that.” - Oscar Grillo illustrator of the novel
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Author Biography
Guillermo Roz (text)
Guillermo was born in Buenos Aires in 1973, he
is Literature Professor at the UNLP, in Argentina.
In 2013 he was awarded in France the prestigious
Ville Marguerite Yourcenar Scholarship, and his
book Les ruego que me odien (Musa a las 9), for
which he is awarded the 1st Prize to Narrative
Francisco Ayala.
In 2012 Alianza Editorial published his novel Tendríamos
que haber venido solos, for which he is
selected as New Talent Fnac. In 2009 he published
Avestruces por la noche. Two novels (Mirada Malva)
and his short story Los Grises in the anthology
of Argentinean, Spanish and Mexican authors
entitled Un nudo en la garganta. Quince cuentos
canallas (Trama). En 2007, he published his novel
La vida me engañó.
He has contributed in articles of cultural journalism
and edited works of fiction for various publications
in the USA, Latinamerica and Europe (amongst which the Instituto
Cervantes and the newspaper El País deserve a mention).
He lives in Madrid since 2002. In 2018 he publishes a first illustrated Las
Gafas negras de Amparito Conejo (La Huerta Grande 2018) illustrated
by Cannes Awarded artista Oscar Grillo. El indio cíclope is their new
four-hands opus.
Oscar Grillo (illustration)
Works as an artist since he was sixteen.
He worked as an animator and collaborated with
magazines as well as illustrating children and poetry
books. In 1969 he emigrates to Europe and
starts working in Spain and Italy. In 1971, he settles
down in England where his career as an animator
blossoms. After a few years, he founds, together
with Ted Rockley, Klacto Animations. Paul and Linda
MacCartney commission five animated shorts,
one of which, Seaside Woman, was awarded the
Palm d’Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In
the meanwhile, he continues illustrating books,
such as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver Travels, Giovanni
Verga’s I Malavoglia and Estanislao del Campo’s
Fausto, for publishing houses around the world.
He also illustrates jazz articles by Whitney Valliet
for The New Yorker magazine.
In 2001, he collaborates in character design for
Pixar Animation Studios’ multiple award-winning film Monsters Inc.. In
2013, at the Annie Awards, he is presented with the Winsor McCay accolade
for his contribution to animation.
The graphic novel attractes his attention and he illustrates The Tempest
by William Shakespeare, Le Poet Assassiné by Guillaume Apollinaire and
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, among others.
He recently co-illustrated The Clockwork Orange by Anthony
Burgess. He is about to publish Pick-up Bands, a
book of portraits of famous jazz musicians.
Copyright Information
© Text by Guillermo Roz
© Illustrations by Oscar Grillo
© Ediciones La Huerta Grande, 2020
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View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher La Huerta Grande
- Publication Date October 2020
- ISBN/Identifier 9788417118662
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatHardback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleSpanish
- Original Language AuthorsSpanish
- Copyright Year2020
- IllustrationOscar Grillo
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