Dick or the Sadness of Sex
Original title: Dick o la tristeza del sexo
The most feral, moving, and hilarious novel ever written about a teenager’s sexual awakening.
Dick Loveman is a timeless heartthrob who indulges in all manner of lustful escapades across the centuries. Unfortunately, Dick is a figment of Franki Prats, a virgin driven by erotic impulses, imagination. For four months, Franki, helped by his best (and only) friend, Bruno Berniola, a.k.a. the sexpert, stumbles through a motley series of erotic trials, dreamlike, familial, friendly, and even zoological, while wrestling with past traumas and the bleak reality of his hometown. Dick or the Sadness of Sex is an anti-erotic bildungsroman, a blasphemous coming-of-age farce, full of sad pornography and black humour. It reaffirms Kiko Amat’s unabashed talent and has no true equivalent in the Spanish literary landscape.
The most feral, moving, and hilarious novel ever written about a teenager’s sexual awakening.
Dick Loveman is a timeless heartthrob who indulges in all manner of lustful escapades across the centuries. Unfortunately, Dick is a figment of Franki Prats, a virgin driven by erotic impulses, imagination. For four months, Franki, helped by his best (and only) friend, Bruno Berniola, a.k.a. the sexpert, stumbles through a motley series of erotic trials, dreamlike, familial, friendly, and even zoological, while wrestling with past traumas and the bleak reality of his hometown. Dick or the Sadness of Sex is an anti-erotic bildungsroman, a blasphemous coming-of-age farce, full of sad pornography and black humour. It reaffirms Kiko Amat’s unabashed talent and has no true equivalent in the Spanish literary landscape.
