The Last Dream

Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction. With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodovar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world, formed by twelve stories carefully selected from his personal writings dating from the late ''60s to the present. Almodovar writes: "I''ve been asked to write my autobiography more than once, and I''ve always refused ... I''ve never kept a diary, and whenever I''ve tried, I''ve never made it to page two; in a sense, then, this book represents something of a paradox. It might be best described as a fragmentary autobiography, incomplete and a little cryptic." Each entry reflects Almodovar''s most intimate obsessions, as well as his evolution as an artist. In the title story, "The Last Dream," Almodovar reflects on the death of his mother. Other entries in the collection include a love story between Jesus and Barabbas, a story of retribution that formed the basis for the film Bad Education, a manic adventure about a film director searching for painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, and a gothic tale centered around a repentant vampire.

Product details

• Authors: Pedro Almodovar, Pedro Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
• Assisted by: Frank Wynne (Translation), Frank Wynne (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2024
• EAN: 9780063349766
• ISBN: 978-0-06-334976-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, FICTION: General, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Biographical, FICTION: Hispanic & Latino, FICTION: LGBTQ+ / General, LITERATURE: WORLD, LITERATURE: LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction