![]() ![]() “ Andrea Víctrix is certainly a unique reading experience, veering from grotesque and macabre to ludicrously funny in the space of a single paragraph… It seems unlikely that a single reading can hope to unearth all its treasures.” (Rachel Farmer) Guillem Viladot, Ruth: How does one experience things from the viewpoint of the other sex? It is this question that has led to Viladot’s creation of Ruth, the genre-defining story of a sex change told by the protagonist through a series of letters to an anonymous friend. In comparing the anonymous narrator’s ‘traditional’ 1960s values with a future society that has done away with family and gender, Villalonga sets up an intriguing interplay between the narrator and the androgynous Andrea Víctrix, so-called Director of Pleasure, in a powerfully satirical, sometimes ironic exploration of contemporary issues such as gender and sexuality, consumerism, environmental disaster and the politics of big business. Llorenç Villalonga, Andrea Víctrix: Part socio-political essay, part dystopian fiction, Andrea Víctrix presents a shockingly prescient vision of Palma, Mallorca in 2050. ![]() ![]() Louise Johnson, University of Sheffield, discusses her translations of Catalan writers Llorenç Villalonga and Guillem Viladot's work into English Translating Andrea Victrix and Ruth into Englishĭr P. ![]()
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