Patty Diphusa, international star of porn photo-novels — at least according to herself — is invited by the director of a postmodern magazine to share her memoirs. Patty never sleeps, and for that reason she has much to say. For her, everything happens at night: a succession of adventures marked by excess, desire, drugs, and a gaze as clear-sighted as it is outspoken about the human condition.
Her stories, filled with explicit sex, endless parties, taxis, nightclubs, art galleries, and the nocturnal wildlife of 1980s Madrid, hide more than mere provocation. Beneath the surface appears a woman with an inexhaustible capacity for pleasure, none for disappointment, and a constant flight from loneliness. A radical life enthusiast.
Forged in the full bloom of the Movida, Patty Diphusa reflects and distorts the nights and days of Madrid, inhabited by characters who make up a true catalogue of traumas, obsessions, and vices. The volume is completed with a selection of the so-called “other texts”: articles and writings published by Pedro Almodóvar in newspapers and magazines that, unintentionally, end up forming a fragmentary autobiography of the author, both personally and creatively.
A key book to understand Almodóvar as a total artist and as a prose writer, and a privileged opportunity to explore, from within, his aesthetic, vital, and narrative universe.
