The Naked Anarchist Lluis Fernandez, D. Lutgens (Translator) Paperback - 192 pages (December 1995) Gay Men's Press; ISBN: 0854491392

In this outrageous exploration of the gay demimonde of Valencia, Lluis Fernandez depicts a precarious culture in which the erotic triumphs over reason.
A series of letters sent to a young gay man exiled in Amsterdam build up an intimate portrait of a community where decorum has long given way to lust and abandon. In a language always on the verge of hysteria, frenzied accounts are only muted by the fact that their words remain unanswered, their warnings never heeded.
A direct result of the social alienation felt by many homosexuals under the Franco regime, this linguistic tour de force presents a society struggling free from the painful secrecies of everyday life. Astir with gossip and rebellion, it makes of melodrama an art form, transforming banality into fantastic ritual.
Originally published in Catalan in 1978 and winner of the Prudenci Betrana prize, The Naked Anarchists a heady mixture of the literary and the scandalous. Harsh in its denouncement of Spain's macho culture, yet rich with a sexual appeal all its own.
"Between supermelodrama, pornography and the picaresque, this novel - dislocated, lyrical and at times surrealistic - offers us a tragicomic vision of a marginal world... it is a text of unbalanced expressiveness, with few related works in the undisturbed waters of our present literature."
- Guia del Ocio, Madrid

Paperback, good condition, shows signs of its age