Praise for Fortuny
"A series of interwoven prose poems packed with lush imagery evoking the aesthetics of the Belle Epoque and successive decades . . . Gimferrer arrays his succinct, elegant word-pictures like pleats in a Fortuny gown, resulting in a slim tour de force. Octavio Paz's introduction, another marvel of poetic prose, offers readers a welcome guide through Gimferrer's gallery of bygone beauty."–Publishers Weekly
"Through immersing the reader in dense, sensuous scenes with the precision and flourish associated with his name, Spanish poet Pere Gimferrer relays an impression of the real-life Belle Époque man, Mariano Fortuny. The world that swirls around Fortuny in this novella captures the fragile time and humanity of World War I Europe with dizzying precision."–World Literature Today
