Institut Ramon LLull

Be warned, the Valley of the Bronx is a dangerous place: a vampire kills a man at the cinema for chomping popcorn too loudly; a very well-read mutant hamster is defending animal rights; a mad scientist’s cure for alopecia turns him into a raging gorilla; at the Pompeu Fabra Meat Market the butchers could turn you into sausage if your order isn’t placed in grammatically prescribed language. And Mandy Jane is out for revenge over her father’s years of sexual violence. This excessive, surreal, grotesque foray into a hyper violent, hypersexual world employs extreme language; readers should expect more coprophagia than commas. Its splatterpunk adventures question our normalization of violence as much as its myriad registers question our linguistic normalization. And Mandy Jane is also the fake muse of a writer named Max Besora, who naively believes literature to be the last space of freedom where he can say whatever he feels like saying, however Mandy Jane will soon disabuse him of that.