" Wakeful and on edge, I could see only the negative in this era. We were living in the realm of the fake. Man was subjected to the continous pressure of advertising which dictated what he could do and what he should think. With every that went by, we found it more difficult to form an opinion of our own. The possibility of freedom could be glimpsed only occasionally when advertising campaigns contradicted each other each other, but this alsoraised the spectre of a descent into chaos. We were being poisoned by words and thre was no way back."
Part socio-political essay, part dystopian fiction, Andrea Victrix presents a shockingly prescient vision of Palma, mallorca in 2050. In comparing the anonymous narrator's 'traditional' 1960s values with a future society that has done away with family and gender, Villalonga sets up an intriguing interplay between the narrator and the androgynous Andrea Victrix, so-called Director of Pleasure, n a powerfully satirical, sometimes ironic exploration of contemporary issues such as gender and sexuality, consumerism, environmental disaster and the politics of big business.
'With the novel andrea Victrix, Llorenç Villalonga's amalgation is a spasmotic, incredible story, accumulative and grotesque, truly original, unique and highly relevant in its own literary context.' - andrea Navarra, the Barcelona review
'This is, until someone proves otherwise, the best dystopian literature ever written in Catalan.' - Ramon Mas
